• Life is but a stopping place,
    A pause in what's to be,
    A resting place along the road,
    to sweet eternity.
    Life, believe, is not a dream
    So dark as sages say;
    Of a little morning rain
    Foretells a pleasant day.
    Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
    But these are transient all;
    If the shower will make the roses bloom,
    Oh why lament its fall ?

    Rapidly, merrily,
    Life's sunny hours flit by,
    Gratefully, cheerily,
    That we have been.
    We all have different journeys,
    Different paths along the way,
    We all were meant to learn some things,
    but never meant to stay...

    Our destination is a place,
    Far greater than we know.
    For some the journey's quicker,
    For some the journey's slow.
    And when the journey finally ends,
    We'll claim a great reward,
    And find an everlasting peace,
    Together with the lord