Belated Traveller ...

BELATED traveller, vainly dost thou mourn

Because the transient night engulfs thy way!

Thou art not on the perilous road alone,

Left to some cruel demons sovereign sway.

Dwell not, an anxious miser over his hoard,

On joys ephemeral of a drunken past,

When the divine and loving Friend has poured

His happy grace on thee and deeply cast

His light in the recesses of thy soul.

Let fear and doubt assail no more thy mind;

The luminous Guide shall bring to the bright goal

Thy boat through long unvistaed shadows blind.

Traveller, clinging take refuge at His feet

Where heaven and earth in silent adoration meet.

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