I blessed them, and said through my tears,
'I, too, have known that high estate.'

I saw a woman swathed in black
So blind with grief she could not see:
I said, 'Not far need I look back -
I, too, have known Gethsemane.'

I saw a face so full of light,
It seemed with all God's truths to shine:
I said, 'I, too, have found my sight,
I, too, have touched the Fact Divine.'



HE THAT HATH EARS



'He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.'--St. John the Divine.

The Spirit says unto the churches,
'Ere ever the churches began
I lived in the centre of Being -
The life of the Purpose and Plan;
I flowed from the mind of the Maker
Through nature to man.

'I sleep in the glow of the jewel,