April 29
Companions of the Way (Evening)When He made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did He see it and declare it, yea, and searched it out.
O PATH which no eagle knoweth, No vulture's eye hath seen,
Where never the lion goeth, Nor the fierce lion's track hath been;
Not in the land of the living That wondrous path is known, But Death and Destruction know it, Path trodden by One alone.
Path of the lonely sorrow, Path of the Lamb who died, Path from the grave to the glory— No other path beside.
From the depths of the doom and darkness Ascends that wondrous road, Which leads the heart of the sinner Up to the heart of God.
For from heights of the golden city He made the glorious road, Which leads to the heart of the sinner Down from the heart of God.
MS. of the earlier part of the fourteenth century, trans. Frances Bevan
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