I, too, at the gates of God each day

Seek for an alms of strength and grace,

Beggar am I that wait and pray

To feast my soul on His beauteous Face.

THE PROMISED COUNTRY

By Speer Strahan, C.S.C.

Fair must that promised country be

Whose streams rise from eternity

And One doth lead upon that way

Whose footfalls are the paths of day.