Classic Poem

Chosen to walk in Heavenly places
Within His light and shade,
If strait and bare Thy earthly spaces,
Be not afraid.

Called by Thy name in Easter's garden,
Steeped in His sun Who rose,
Be not dismayed for roads that harden
Or doors that close.

Drawn, lifted, sealed by Love unchanging,
His wonders to declare,
Mid noise and throng, fear no estranging,
He keeps thee there.

Fashioned to gaze where Truth is shining,
To live where Peace lies dear,
Frame not thy steps to labyrinths twining
In darkness here.

Long must the voyage be that leads thee
At last to such an End.
Welcome, each wind and wave that speeds thee
To such a Friend.

" A little while, " He saith, " and sorrow
Shall hide in mist the shore,
But I will see you on the morrow
For evermore. "