I have called the shadow sunshine, and the merest frosty moonshine
I have, weeping, blessed the Lord for as if daylight had begun.
"Till he sent a sudden angel, with a glorious sweet evangel,
Who turned all my tears to pearl-gems, and crowned me—so little worth;
Me! and through the rainy even changed my poor earth into heaven
Or, by wondrous revelation, brought the heavens down to earth.
"O the strangeness of the feeling!—O the infinite revealing,—
To think how God must love me to have made me so content!
Though I would have served him humbly, and patiently, and dumbly,
Without any angel standing in the pathway that I went."