Truth waiteth not on cycle, nor on season;
straight from their deep foundations upward spring
the strong affirmatives of Love's pure reason
beyond all argument or questioning.
And as each premise, mounting to conclusion,
on steady wing its course unerring holds,
beyond all compromise, above confusion,
perfect effect from perfect cause unfolds.
Christ speaks, and there is light; and mortal seeming
stands suddenly revealed and fades away
as nothingness, as quietly as dreaming
and darkness fade before the star of day.
O Love-lit Christ, thy voice is affirmation,
thy word, thy promise, thy fulfillment one,
thou art Christ, Truth, thou dost declare creation
complete, of perfect Father, perfect son.
Poems
AFFIRMATION
From the June 1937 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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