MEDITATION.
’Mid scenes of mystery life’s tide rolls onward;And tho’ some, delving deep in caves of knowledge,Have revealed wondrous facts, this life, concerning,Still blind they are to most of life’s great features;How powerless to perceive the future’s movements,Or e’en explain the present things about them!We little more than know that we’re existing,’Mid scenes that time and tide are changing ever.Hopeis a star that lures men ever onward,Oft seeming near and yet forever distant;Contentmentis an isle where man, if ever,Has seldom dwelt amid the scenes enchanting;Loveis a dew-drop on the rose-bush glowing,Soon to depart as e’en the bush must perish:All things of earth are like the fleeting shadowsExcept the love of Him whose power and wisdomExceeds, by far, man’s deepest understanding,And He, who clothes the lillies in their beauty,Who feeds his flocks and marks the falling sparrow,Will shield His children from life’s raging tempests,And lead them safe through waters of afflictionUntil, at last, beyond the vales and shadows,Their eyes behold that Land of endless beauty.
’Mid scenes of mystery life’s tide rolls onward;And tho’ some, delving deep in caves of knowledge,Have revealed wondrous facts, this life, concerning,Still blind they are to most of life’s great features;How powerless to perceive the future’s movements,Or e’en explain the present things about them!We little more than know that we’re existing,’Mid scenes that time and tide are changing ever.Hopeis a star that lures men ever onward,Oft seeming near and yet forever distant;Contentmentis an isle where man, if ever,Has seldom dwelt amid the scenes enchanting;Loveis a dew-drop on the rose-bush glowing,Soon to depart as e’en the bush must perish:All things of earth are like the fleeting shadowsExcept the love of Him whose power and wisdomExceeds, by far, man’s deepest understanding,And He, who clothes the lillies in their beauty,Who feeds his flocks and marks the falling sparrow,Will shield His children from life’s raging tempests,And lead them safe through waters of afflictionUntil, at last, beyond the vales and shadows,Their eyes behold that Land of endless beauty.
’Mid scenes of mystery life’s tide rolls onward;And tho’ some, delving deep in caves of knowledge,Have revealed wondrous facts, this life, concerning,Still blind they are to most of life’s great features;How powerless to perceive the future’s movements,Or e’en explain the present things about them!We little more than know that we’re existing,’Mid scenes that time and tide are changing ever.Hopeis a star that lures men ever onward,Oft seeming near and yet forever distant;Contentmentis an isle where man, if ever,Has seldom dwelt amid the scenes enchanting;Loveis a dew-drop on the rose-bush glowing,Soon to depart as e’en the bush must perish:All things of earth are like the fleeting shadowsExcept the love of Him whose power and wisdomExceeds, by far, man’s deepest understanding,And He, who clothes the lillies in their beauty,Who feeds his flocks and marks the falling sparrow,Will shield His children from life’s raging tempests,And lead them safe through waters of afflictionUntil, at last, beyond the vales and shadows,Their eyes behold that Land of endless beauty.