"UNTIL THE DAY DAWN."
"The things which are not seen are eternal."—I Corinthians 4: 18.
"UNTIL THE DAY DAWN."
Awake, my soul! The eternal day is breaking,
The darkness of the world is pierced with lights,
And rays, prophetic of the morn's arising,
Already gleam far up the eastern heights.
The day of painless life and tireless vigor,
The day of widening knowledge of the best,
The day when earth's deceits and adumbrations
Shall change into the truth in glory dressed.
O soul of mine, let not dull sleep bewitch thee;
Let not the gilded fantasies of sense
Cause thee to slumber when heaven's light is shining,
And God's dear voice is summoning thee hence.
Thine earthly life is but a preparation
For grander toil and never-ending joys.
Thou wast not meant to find it satisfactory,
Its keenest sorrows are its broken toys.