If I shall turn myself to look again,
Upward, to Thee, O Father, I shall find
All strength, and love, and courage, and one Mind,
Intelligence beyond the mortal ken.
If I should turn myself from running after
The trivial merriment that would confuse,
And on true happiness more deeply muse,
I should find fairer joy than idle laughter.
Too long I've sought in mortal ways to slake
My thirst from self-hewn cisterns, leaking, cracked;
Nor seemed to realize that all I lacked
Waited in Life divine for me to take.
I turn to Spirit, and cast out despair,
And find all Life, and Truth, completeness, there.
Poems
IF I SHALL TURN
From the December 1940 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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