Nor may the race e’er hope to find

The rest for which each age has striven.

The same old problems vex mankind;

But to our fears this faith is given:—

Broods over all the Eternal Mind,

And night on earth is day in heaven.

EXPERIENCE.

Slowly is life revealed, and slowlier still

The mystic scroll of the Eternal Will;

But, calming our impatience, Hope replies,—