"There is a plan far greater than we know"

There is a plan far greater than we know,

There is a landscape broader than the one you see,

There is a haven where storm-tossed souls may go,

Some call it death, we call it immortality.

You call it death__this seeming endless sleep,

We call it birth__the soul at last set free.

Tis hampered not by time or space__you weep.

Why weep at death__tis immortality.

Farewell dear voyager__’twill not be long

Your work is done__now may peace rest with thee.

Your kindly thoughts and deeds__they still live on,

This is not death__’tis immortality.

Farewell dear voyageur__the river winds and turns,

The cadence of your song wafts near to me.

And now you know the thing that all men learn;

There is no death__there’s immortality.

Reverend Jesse Halsey

Southampton L.I.

May 20 1932