THERE is no gleam of glory gone,
For those who read in Nature’s Book;
No lack of triumph in their look
Who stand in Her Eternal Dawn.
Friends of a failing Faith! while your
Lighthouses of eternal life
Hold tremulous lamps across the strife,
That die and darken hour by hour;
And higher climb the waves that drench,
And on the rocks the breakers roar;
While Light for you opes no new door;
And higher climb the waves that quench,-
While Heaven-scalers in the dust
Sit, with their hopes dead or discrowned;
Their splendid dreams all shivered round,
And broken every reed of trust,-
While timid souls that sail the sea
Of Time are fearful lest yon band
Of Cloud should not be solid Land,
To step on for Eternity,-
And faint hearts flutter ‘twixt a nest
That is not sealed to wind and wet,
And one that is not ready yet,
With wandering wings, and find no rest.-
There is no gleam of glory gone
For those who read in Nature’s Book;
No lack of triumph in their look,
Who live in her Eternal Dawn!
(Gerald Massey)
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