The Hereafter

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Hereafter!  O we need not waste
  Our smiles or tears, whatever befall:
  No happiness but holds a taste
  Of something sweeter, after all;--
  No depth of agony but feels
  Some fragment of abiding trust,--
  Whatever death unlocks or seals,
  The mute beyond is just.

© James Whitcomb Riley