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"- - and wild, with all Regrets! '' - - Lord Tennyson: - - In His songs from "The Princess'' Let Man remember the One-Way Street of Time That he travels night and day Without one Stop! To play a Perfect role in every line And meet Each test Without a Single blot, He must be Truly Master in All kinds Of Association, Ready on the Spot To do, to say, to be the Very Mind That others may Require! But man has not This Universal gift, nor can it be Acquired By him! "As the sparks fly upward'' and the streams Flow downward, so man is prone to sin and mired To miry clay! His Tower of strength Leans Tottering o'er the brink of Error at All times, and when he'd be so very strong And show perfection in his ways, 'tis then that Tower fails and falls! For man to say, "I've no regrets; I've met each Challenge on The rocky road of life and every day I've faltered not and felt no strife'' is to deny The Holy Word of God, invalidate His Glorious Grace, and thus forget the Cry Of Christ on Calvary! Why so late, O mortal man, to sense such vanity And pride! "Search me, O God, and see if there be Wickedness in me! Oh, Christianity! Thou art a Person, Not "A thing", O Christ to me! So when the Sun of earthly life goes down Behind the hills and vales of Time, tis then Our Souls, Redeemed before, shall see, profound, The working of the Full Redemption when Our vile bodies with the Saints' are made Anew, and fashioned Like our Lord's. O friends, "tis then Regrets shall be no more, for laid Aside are All the Stains of sin! And Best, The Healing Stream forever flows and brings The Likeness of our Lord! The Sun of Righteousness, Indeed, will have risen with Healing in His Wings! Oh, Jesus, Maker of Heaven and earth and All The Universe - - the Work of our Triune God - -, The pain, the anguish, the darkness of the sod Are All Dispelled by Thee! O let us be And Live within Thy Light from Blessed Calvary! |
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