• Author: Selected
• Editor: B-7413
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume V
• Page Number:
• Date: 3 27 1918
• Tags:
• poetry

SOME SYMPATHETIC LOVING POWER

"I do not undertake to say That literal answers come from heaven, But I know this; that when I pray A comfort and support is given That helps me rise o’er earthly things As larks soar up on airy wings.

“In vain the wise philosopher Points out to me my fabric flaws; In vain the scientists of earth That all things are controlled by laws, My life has taught me day by day That it availeth much to pray.

“I do not stop to reason out The why and how, I do not care, Since I know this, that when I doubt, Life seems a blackness of despair, The world a tomb; and when I trust Sweet blossoms spring up in the dust.

“Since I know in the darkest hour If I lift up my soul in prayer Some sympathetic, loving power Sends hope and comfort to me there; Since balm is sent to ease my pain, What need to argue or explain?

“Prayer has the sweet refining grace, It educates the soul and heart, It lends a luster to the face, And by its elevating art It gives the mind an inner sight And brings it near the Infinite.”

—Selected.