SEAL’D is it? Where then did you learn the sigh
That speaks a knowledge which your lips deny?
If its rich treasures never were reveal’d,
Where did you learn to wish the Book unseal’d?
The Esquimaux, to other climes unknown,
Can never sorrow for a milder zone.
So, had you never tasted of the fruit,
You had not sought with tears the hidden root.
Seal’d is it? wherefore should you think so? No!
‘Twas never seal’d to one who fear’d it so.
The troubled dreamer, in the midnight gloom,
Wrapt in deep slumber, glides from room to room,
Fearless of ill, unconscious of the night,
His bold, unfaltering footstep asks no light;
Onward he passes, with untroubled mind,
To seek some spot he waking could not find;
But if the dream be broken, and again
Suspended reason should assume her reign,
Strange to the path he knew so well before,
He sees the darkness, and he sees no more:
And does not so the soul? She too is bold,
Ere yet the dangers of the way are told.
No fearful mysteries her thoughts engage,
She sees no seal upon the hallow’d page;
The awful bar, invisible as strong,
Hides all the doubtings that to faith belong.
Time has been, and not very much remote,
When all was hidden, and you knew it not;
How thought you then of mysteries conceal’d?
Did you sigh then to have the Book unseal’d?
No; when, in faintest accents, in your ear
The Spirit whisper’d, “There are secrets there,”
In that same hour the curtain was undrawn,
The Book was open’d, and the seal was gone;
The ray that lights you may be faint indeed,
And scarcely seen the sunbeam that you need;
Even as when we watch the opening day,
To catch the glimmering and uncertain ray,
At first it seems so loitering, so slow,
We almost doubt if it be morn or no;
But sure as twilight brings the perfect day.
A brighter sun shall light your future way,
Till mercy perfected your soul dismiss
To boundless knowledge and unmeasured bliss.
Caroline Fry
(Caroline Fry)
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