I do not know, if, climbing some steep hillThrough fragrant wooded pass, this glimpse I bought;Or whether in some mid-day I was caughtTo upper air, where visions of God’s willIn pictures to our quickened sense fulfilHis word. But this I saw:A path I soughtThrough wall of rock. No human fingers wroughtThe golden gates which opened, suddenly, still,And wide. My fear was hushed by my delight.Surpassing fair the lands; my path lay plain;Alas! So spell-bound, feasting on the sight,I paused, that I but reached the threshold bright,When, swinging swift, the golden gates againWere rocky walls, by which I wept in vain!H. H.
I do not know, if, climbing some steep hillThrough fragrant wooded pass, this glimpse I bought;Or whether in some mid-day I was caughtTo upper air, where visions of God’s willIn pictures to our quickened sense fulfilHis word. But this I saw:A path I soughtThrough wall of rock. No human fingers wroughtThe golden gates which opened, suddenly, still,And wide. My fear was hushed by my delight.Surpassing fair the lands; my path lay plain;Alas! So spell-bound, feasting on the sight,I paused, that I but reached the threshold bright,When, swinging swift, the golden gates againWere rocky walls, by which I wept in vain!H. H.
I do not know, if, climbing some steep hillThrough fragrant wooded pass, this glimpse I bought;Or whether in some mid-day I was caughtTo upper air, where visions of God’s willIn pictures to our quickened sense fulfilHis word. But this I saw:A path I soughtThrough wall of rock. No human fingers wroughtThe golden gates which opened, suddenly, still,And wide. My fear was hushed by my delight.Surpassing fair the lands; my path lay plain;Alas! So spell-bound, feasting on the sight,I paused, that I but reached the threshold bright,When, swinging swift, the golden gates againWere rocky walls, by which I wept in vain!H. H.
I do not know, if, climbing some steep hill
Through fragrant wooded pass, this glimpse I bought;
Or whether in some mid-day I was caught
To upper air, where visions of God’s will
In pictures to our quickened sense fulfil
His word. But this I saw:
A path I sought
Through wall of rock. No human fingers wrought
The golden gates which opened, suddenly, still,
And wide. My fear was hushed by my delight.
Surpassing fair the lands; my path lay plain;
Alas! So spell-bound, feasting on the sight,
I paused, that I but reached the threshold bright,
When, swinging swift, the golden gates again
Were rocky walls, by which I wept in vain!
H. H.