July 8
Companions of the Way (Evening)The Lord will give grace and glory, no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
O TELL me whence that joy doth spring, Whose diet is divine and fair,
Which wears heaven like a bridal ring, And tramples on doubts and despair?
Whose Eastern traffique deals in bright And boundless empyrean themes,
Mountains of spice, day-stars and light, Green trees of life and living streams?
Sure Holyness the magnet is, And Love the lure that woos thee down:
Which makes the high transcendant bliss Of knowing thee, so rarely known!
HENRY VAUGHAN
THE KINGDOM