The shepherd walks—his flock about his knees,
Guarding, guiding, comforting those forlorn.
With him they issue forth when first the morn
Sends level sunbeams through the wakened trees.
They scarcely know they pass beneath his stock,
So all-persuasively, so wisely led,
Until at dusk they reach the fold to bed—
And still the shepherd's eyes are on his flock.
How confident the hours to those who trust
Their destiny to One all-wise; their day's
Activities, directed in right ways,
Shall hold no baneful hurt, no evil thrust.
So Mind unfolds new vistas of release.
So Love sustains a sweet and certain peace.
Poems
"WE ARE HIS PEOPLE, AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE"
From the July 1940 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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