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(this is my favorite commercial on TV right now...) It got me to thinking...

If this is all that there would be

The sun melting against the sea

In ruby-rendered rhapsody

How futile were its glory

And if the mountains coral-kissed

Or dell swathed in soft silver mist

Were preludes to death’s vast abyss

How vain would be love’s story

If pleasantries and ecstasies

Of babies bouncing on our knees

Or midnight moonlight melodies

Would be life’s utmost splendor

And if the loved ones we embrace

And all their memories we trace

Would be the pinnacle of grace

How trite its touch so tender

If all the best life could suggest

Would fill time’s scope from east to west

To satisfy the heart’s request

Yet holds no consolation

To comfort us in parting’s pain

Before that final mystic main

That we must cross as pulses wane

How crass this brief elation

The crux of hope and joy and love

Is not a mortal dust-shaped glove

Slipped over souls; nay, One above

Has sealed beyond earth’s garden

Of whispers where sun meets the sea

In golden-ruby rhapsody

More than this glimpse of what will be

If we have claimed His pardon

© Janet Martin

 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12

 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:3