Will feel and know the world to be the vale

Of deathly shadows compass’d round about

With ignorance and error, sin and crime,

With yearnings, longings, miseries, and griefs,

And all that makes the “Breath of Lives” to seem

As Angels wrestling with the powers of hell.

* * * *

A gentle Spirit with the twilight came

And rested on my soul; then hope with peace,

Long since to me as strangers, touched my heart,