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The Years of Discovery
Sanbornton: 1836 | page 100

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Ye stricken ones who sorrow o’er the sod
No love of thine outweighs the love of God. 
     It is for thee 
     Meek at this mystery
Of Heaven’s dark fiat calmly to submit
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     Linger not here
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Go forth and to thy duty once again
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Say unto youth say to the hoary head:
Prove faithful to the living as the dead.163

The Puritan ideal had never been merely a passive resignation to God’s inscrutable will. There was a commitment to an active faith in life. 

163 M. M. Glover, “Thoughts at a Grave,” The Covenant, A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Cause of Odd-Fellowship, December 1845, pp. 537–538. This poem was not published until December 1845, but its placement in her notebooks seems to indicate that the author wrote it not very long after Glover’s death. [Mary Baker Glover, “Thoughts at a Grave,” poem, A09002, pp. 50–51, MBEL.]