'Tis ours to watch and pray, for she has taught
The accepted prayer of purified desire:
The cup of healing that her hand has brought
Is ours forever: while her words of fire
Still urge us onward to the beckoning heavens, and higher.
She showed the way that Jesus showed of yore,
That sin and hate and man's deceitfulness
Had quite o'ercast, and shrouded more and more:
We first rejected her, then learned to bless,
And now our joy for her o'erwhelms our hearts' distress.
She is in peace—at rest with Him who dwells
In peace forever—and her glowing page
Leads all men upward to the light, and tells
The wonders of their heaven-born heritage:
Her priceless gift to earth is ours from age to age.
