15 JANUARY 1937, Page 13

Earth and Heaven

WHAT harmonies of earth are heard in heaven

If heaven there be, it is not strange nor far ;

Much nearer is it than the morning star, And human as our hearts which die forgiven.

0, if there be that other workl, that grace Of souls redeemed, we breathe it like the air ; And angels are about us everywhere In love's good deeds, in life's transfigured face.

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SIEGFHIED SASSOON.