Where, amid tumultuous waters,
Sickening with a hope repress’d,
Far from all his soul desires,
Loves the sailor’s eye to rest?
Is it not on that far beacon
Faintly beaming through the gloom,
Which some friendly hand has lighted
To mark the path that leads him home?
Methinks a hand as kind has rear’d
On yonder hill the simple pile,
That ‘mid the world’s distasteful travel,
The aspect might our path beguile.
Hardly press’d by earthly sorrow,
Often have I turn’d my eye,
And caught the outline of its tower,
Trac’d upon the azure sky.
Emblem of the peace it proffers,
It has check’d the anxious tear;
Though the world should do its worst,
There is peace and comfort there.
Yes – and when the maddening draught
Of earthly pleasure ran too high,
The distant form has seem’d to say
“Remember,” when it met my eye.
Memento of a Saviour’s love,
Oft forgotten, oft denied,
However far my footsteps wander,
Be thou ever at my side.
Tell me, when the world allures me,
‘Twas not such the bliss I knew,
When beneath thy hallow’d ceiling
Draughts of holy joy I drew.
Tell me, when that world betrays me,
Where its sorrows cease to harm,
Where I learn’d to brave its dangers,
Resting on a Saviour’s arm.
Tell, O tell me, when my folly
Treads the path of sin too near,
How many pangs of bitter anguish
Sense of sin has cost me there.
Bring to memory every feeling
Thou hast witness’d in my breast;
Be the beacon that shall guide me
To realms of everlasting rest.
(Caroline Fry)
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