There's more plague than pleasure in a secret.
No good
Or glory of this Life but comes by pain.
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
For our lives here are mostly in the power
Of other lives, and each of us is bound
To be his brother's keeper.
The seeds of our own punishment are sown at the time we commit sin.
But in Him we touch
The ultimate symbol of Humanity,
Humanity that touches the Divine
By some fine link, intangible to us.
When two goats met on a bridge, which was too narrow for either to pass or turn, the goat which lay down, that the other might walk over it, was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield.
I see the whole design,—
I, who saw Power, see now Love perfect too.
Perfect, I call Thy plan;
Thanks that I am a man!
Maker, remake, complete,—I trust what Thou
shalt do!
