What mean the speeding seasons? What is time
That claims to be too late or else too soon?
Remember Jesus, when a boy of twelve,
Found in the Father's business his delight;
And later, how he loved the little ones
And recommended their receptive thought.
Consider Moses in his later days—
Upon him fell no burden of the years:
His eye undimmed, his powers unimpaired,
He journeyed on, when earth's great tasks were done.
Yea, neither youth and immaturity,
Nor age and faltering step, are ever real.
Both are but lies of false material sense
That seeks to hide God's likeness from our sight.
Who may not bring the loaves the Master breaks,
Distribute fishes to the multitude?
And who may not with love point out the way,
Reveal the manna in the wilderness?
So youth and age are nothing, nor is time
Of great eternity the smallest part.
The Christ is born, true being is revealed,
Dominion found, whene'er the human thought
Glimpses the allness of the infinite.
Poems
NOW IS THE TIME
From the October 1940 issue of The Christian Science Journal
Explore Concord—see where it takes you.
Search the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures