Which is the voice of Him who sits to judge? What if they read the primal blessing thus, 'If God hath joined us, blasphemy it were "For men to separate us by their law 'Which boasts its proud necessity to those 'Who would be one in flesh as well as heartIn flesh, the lesser thing, as now in heart, 'The greater?' What if they should read it thus And find themselves enthroned to farthest Time Among the greatest of God's messengers ? I leave you with the thought; you understand It is but abstract. 29 LETTER IV. EUCHARIS TO HER MOTHER. May 15, 18-2. O dearest mother, dearer to me now C How must I tell you what a venturous start That you will weep, as even I do now, To think of it; to think what blessed hope O you will weep, as I do even now, To think how few are saved, how many drown, The glory or the honour; not to us, Who have through faith been made the ministers Of that new covenant which now begins To dawn above the darkness of the old; O not to us, but unto Him whose love Is now the sea we twain have ventured on, To seek an unknown kingdom, which doth lie, We know, beyond all distance ever reached By any keel which hath returned again. We twain, my mother; you at least have known With what a glory of still lengthening days The lengthening nights of winter saw me crowned; To see me, like a ship that long has swung And at the last with daybreak spreads her sails To better things than I had touched before, Mother, by the time You weep for joy to learn that so it is, Be any more the maiden you have seen A garment God hath dipped in His own light, When I shall learn to rightly name them all. And not as others, in the face of all? ~other, tell me;—did your senses hear, |