A kingdom to my keeping!—so, in faith,
I speak my simple word, and, fearing not,
Commit it to His hands whom I do serve.
“And thus it is, O friend, that I have dared
To send thee greeting and this word of cheer.
God bless thee, Sumner, and all souls like thine,
Working serene and patient in His cause!
God give thee of the fruit of thine own hands,
And let thine own works praise thee in the gates
Of the new city, whose foundation-stones