To every agony, “I am that which waits

Beyond the last horizon of your pain,

Beyond your wildest hope, your last despair,

Above your heaven, and deeper than your hell.

There is not room on earth for what ye seek.

Is there not room in Me?”

Time is a shadow

Of man’s own thought. Things past and things to come

Are closed in that full circle. He lives and reigns;

Dies with the dying bird; and, in its death