MINE the silver, mine the gold, (Hag. 2: 8.)
Thus saith the Lord, the Life.
In vain have leaders bought and sold,
The realm of Mind they cannot hold
With sordid thought or matter cold;
In vain the greed, the strife.
They lavish gold out of the bag, (Isa. 46: 6.)
And silver in the balance weigh;
They make a god of only slag,
And heads may bow, and tongues may wag,
Of gold and silver gods to brag:
But gold and silver flee away.
But where the silver, where the gold?
Surely there is a vein! (Job 281.)
The carnal man cannot behold
He cannot find, however bold
To search the deep, to dig the mold;
"Tis not in mortal fane.
The man who sees and mirrors well
The Mind that's Substance true,
Who's wise to know and wise to tell
The Life to which there is no knell,
Can find the vein in mount and dell;
He knows its heavenly hue.
