The Psalms of Life: A Compilation of Psalms, Hymns, Chants, Anthems, &c. Embodying the Spiritual, Progressive and Reformatory Sentiment of the Present Age 107. Do we indeed desire the dead

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The Psalms of Life‎#107

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Text:	Spirit Presence
Author:	Tennyson

1 Do we indeed desire the dead
Should still be near us at our side?
Is there no baseness we would hide?
No inner vileness that we dread?

2 Shall he for whose applause we strove,
We had such reverence for his name,
See with clear eye some hidden shame,
And we be lessened in his love?
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3 We wrong the grave with fears untrue;
Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
There must be wisdom with great death;
The dead shall look me through and through.

4 Be near us when we climb or fall:
Ye watch, like God, the rolling hours
With larger, other eyes than ours,
To make allowance for us all.