The devious paths of worldly glory lay
Before me, and my heart exultant rose,
In self-sufficient pride, to choose of those
One for myself,—nor word nor deed might stay
My eagerness for self-sought, self-made fray
Against self-chosen, self-evoked foes.
Yet strange the battle went. I won me woes
Not reckoned for, that held me long at bay.
Thus self in fighting self had vanquished me!
To higher unconsidered help I turned,
Which in my self-blind pride I long had spurned.
In humbleness I asked my way of Thee.
Dear Lord, thro' peace and rest which Thou hast given,
Have I been led in the straight way of heaven.
Poems
[Written for the Journal.]
THE CHOSEN WAY
From the November 1907 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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