Classic Poem

In that great trouble ever at my side
The tempter stood and " Whither must you go
When you are dead?" he whispered; " who can know?
And if you die for God, when you have died
Art thou of those whom God has sanctified?
What bond, what proof, what promise can you show?"
Thus day by day I tossed in doubt, till lo!
My troubled soul took comfort, and replied —

" O tempter, I am bound, though God is free:
And whether there be comfort here or no
I dare not turn; straight forward I must go,
And venture my eternal state with Him;
And so, come hell, come heaven, sink or swim,
Blindfold I 'll leap into eternity."