Martha Gilbert's Commonplace Book - page 5

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Let trifles prevail not
   Against those ye love.

Nor change with tomorrow
   Should fortune take wing
But the deeper the sorrow
   The closer still cling.
Oh! be kind to each other
   The nights coming on
When friend & when brother
   Perchance may be gone.

Let us love one another -
Charles Swain England.

Let us love one another
   Not long may we stay:
In this bleak world of mourning
   Some droop while 'tis day.
Others fade in their moon,
   And few linger till eve.
Oh! there breaks not a heart
   But leaves some one to grieve:
And the fondest, the purest,
   The truest that met,
Have still found the need
   To forgive and forget!
Then all! though the hopes
   That we nourished decay
Let us love one another
   As long as we stay