| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | The Sundial of Armoy (1847) (Selected Lyrics).
II. Heavenly Changes in the Departed | | By Richard Mant (1776–1848) |
| | | O COME the day-spring never ending, | |
| When, freed from sin and sinful stain, | |
| With the free soul the body blending | |
| Shall rise again! | |
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| Till, sown in weakness, rais’d in power, | 5 |
| All glorious rais’d, all worthless sown, | |
| Purged from earth’s dross, the golden ore | |
| Heaven’s impress own. | |
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| And life mortality shall banish, | |
| And health efface corruption’s spot, | 10 |
| And death by death self-stricken vanish, | |
| And sin be not. | |
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| Then, angel-like, their God adoring, | |
| Just men the angels’ course shall run, | |
| In God’s own realm a brightness pouring | 15 |
| Forth as the sun. | |
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| God’s city theirs, a holier dwelling | |
| Than Sion’s mount and Salem’s gates, | |
| God’s temple, where devotion telling | |
| His glory waits. | 20 |
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| All sin, all grief, all death, for ever | |
| Shall cease; and kind affection’s tie, | |
| Which death erewhile for once could sever | |
| New life supply. | | | | |
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