Addressed to a brother who moved to a different state.

Thou art not gone! thou could’st not go; —
True friends can never part;
Our prayer is one, our hope is one,
And we are one in heart.

No place or time can e’er divide
The souls which friendship seals;
But still the changing scenes of life,
Their mutual love reveals.

Body from body may be placed
Remote as pole from pole;
but, can our fleshly frailties bind
The fellowship of soul?

’Tis when removed from grosser scenes,
My spirit claims her right;
My friend is often least away
When absent from my sight.

His form and look, in memory’s glass,
I still distinctly see;
His voice and words, in fancy’s ear,
Are whispering still to me.

Beneath the same fair dome we dwell,
By the same hand are fed;
And, pilgrims in one narrow way
Are by one spirit led.

To the great presence of our God
By hourly faith we come;
And find, in sweet communion there,
One everlasting home.

Our hope, our joys, our life, our soul,
In our one Savior meet;
And, what in earth or heaven shall break
A union so complete?

O, blest are they who find in him,
A union to their friend;
Their love shall grow through life’s decay
And live when life shall end.

And blessed He, whose love bestows
A friendship so divine;
Who makes by oneness with himself,
My friend forever mine.

“That they all may be one; as thou Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.” John 27:21

Author: Unknown

Signs of the Times
Volume 28, Number 4; February 15, 1860

Below are the songs that were made from the poem using AI. They are identified
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