Abashed, and trembling for his sin:
I trow he had not long to wait
For God came out and led him in.
“And then there ran a radiant pair.
Ruddy with haste and eager-eyed,
To meet him first upon the stair—
His wife and child, beatified.
“God, smiling, took him by the hand,
And led him to the brink of heaven:
He saw where systems whirling stand,