Look hopefully forward, from life's shining plow,
For the Spirit's sure prompter and guide;
And find, in Love's labor, the radiant brow
Of the promised Messiah and bride.
The Life-giving Power awakes us today,
And we know the bright message is true;
For it works, as of old, in a marvellous way,
Forever revealing the new.
Let the ghosts of the ages past bury their dead,
With their grimly mysterious lore;
Their dark, lurid spectres, and shadows of dread,
Shall trouble the Present no more.
The light of the Mind shines as bright as of old,
A type of the truly divine;
And its Word is the same sacred Truth that was told
To the Seers of Israel's time.
The spheres swiftly roll on their frictionless way,
In silence resistless they fly;
And earth's living spirits adoring obey,
Held by an invisible tie.
In silence He orders the glorious plan,—
The atom, the planet, the flower;
All things and all creatures, from lowest to man,
Are one in the grasp of His power.
