Sonnet 34 'Take Courage, Friend, and Know Thy Love Is Near'

Take Courage, Friend, and know thy Love is near! Death, mortal, can’t erase the prints of Love! And though he try, with wetted thumb and fear, To scrub Love out… Its signature is of Diamonds, indelible as glyphs in rock, Where only long forgetting wears away. Love wears lace now, before, ‘twas muslin frock And She will, veiled, visit – no shrouds, nay! Bride unto Christ enthroned within your heart. Ye two will scribe within the Book of Life, The Record of your Love, perfumed by God, And He will overlook all starts and strife, And bless your scribing with his Holy Rod… Thus so, in Heav’n, together Sweet Loves sing, And bless us, here below, whene’er bell rings! (written on the occasion, of thinking of a distant friend) 3/16/2019