No strike, venom, or dismay
forms imagined sign,
when to Truth's blaze without delay
the ambush we consign.
Promptly shake off insidious thought
of pain, sin, fear.
Like Paul, prove the viper naught
and God near.
Poems
Immediacy
From the October 1981 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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