Classic Poem

FOR A F RIEND'S Ordination .

L ORD of all visions fair and sweet,
Thy name we praise that here to-day
We welcome one who did not dare,
Thy vision seen, to disobey;

But up and followed on and on,
Though rough the way and dark the night,
Led ever by that threefold gleam,
The True, the Beautiful, the Right.

It lured him on through many lands;
Through generations strange and old;
To Moses with his face aglow,
To Jesus with his lips of gold.

No longer now in cloistered calm
He feels its influence benign;
It leads him forth; it leads him here,
To make us his as he is Thine.

Lord of all visions sweet and fair,
Thou carest not for time or place;
Still as of old the promise stands, —
The pure in heart shall see Thy face.