God has in his keeping
Eternities of time.
He hears worlds of trouble
But, gives ear to mine.
He sways stars and planets,
“Keeps the keys of death.”
But in his loving kindness
Paused to give me breath.
I have seen a mountain
Sweet flowers, a bird, a tree.
God has lovely children
Dare he look on me?
Shadows
I SAT with dreams and mated them with shadows
Where sunlight flecked the grass and trickled thru
Each swaying twig and branch of spruce and elder
Adoringly, they somehow spoke of you.
I sat tense-eyed, my longing vision sensing,
An unseen, art-wise hand begin to trace.
With all love’s magic trickery displaying
To me; your hair, your pallid waiting face.
In all these voiceless years of night and grieving
Above thy grave I grasp this gleam of grace.
Perhaps sometime, where is no pain or parting
I’ll smile again into your waiting face.
Two Roads
THERE are two roads near Joppa town
And here I doubting stood,
For one went winding round the hill
The other thru the wood.
And if I took the winding road
’Twould lead me thru the mall,
Of noise and gossipers for which
I have no heart at all.