The Road Beyond the Town; And Other Little Verses (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EVANGELINE rEAR, gentle maid, much have I pitied thee For all the sorrow of the valiant heart That through the dark kept love's sure constancy, And cheered thy pilgrim way through wood and mart. Sweet is the lesson of thy wandering; For I, emboldened firmer, seek my Love, And to the path He bids shall firmer cling, Content if I may see His face Above. THE TRUTH THAT MAKES US FREE UARD of the ancient towers, Watching the ways of men, What of the night and what of the day, Have you a message that comes our way, What is the word again? Only the ancient summons, And the one unchanged decree ? Know your God and in love fulfil The tasks He set to your servant will, This: and your peace shall be. Only the ancient summons, Watchman, is that you say: But what of the light of later fires, Flaming with science and men's desires In the markets of thought to-day? Meteor flashes of error, Or the will o' the wisp of pride: For men may dream in the plenilune, But never a light is like the noon, Where the words of God abide. The Truth That Makes Us Free 75 Baubles of broken fragments, And stammerings of the schools, Strata of dust and withered scrolls That pride in a convict's garb unrolls In a mystery to fools. Yea, and their hearts might know it, For the ages tell them so, That a thousand lights from the light of God Fall from the skies and lift from the sod, And the simplest child may know. Not in the tavern's glimmer, And not to the senses' light, Shall ever the truth unseal the blind; But the beacon of faith shall steer the mind To the harbor-ways aright. Guard of the ancient towers, With the one unchanged decree, Down through the night and across the day, The primal message abides our way, And the tru...