January 29
Companions of the Way (Evening)We have seen the Lord.
THE bonds that press and fetter, That chafe the soul and fret her, What man can know them better, O brother men, than I?
And yet, my burden bearing, The five wounds ever wearing,— I too in my despairing Have seen Him as I say;— Gross darkness all around Him Enwrapt Him and enwound Him,— O late at night I found Him And lost Him in the day!
Yet bolder grown and braver At sight of one to save her My soul no more shall waver, With wings no longer furled,— But cut with one decision From doubt and men's derision That sweet and vanished vision Shall follow through the world.
FREDERIC W. H. MYERS, A Vision.
THE BELOVED