Forth from your lowly Past! In humble wise Up to the highest heaven lift your eyes. No glories that the heroes ever knew But God has placed them waiting there for you. Forth from your evil Past! The shame and sin -- Dare now to live as they had never been. In Jesus cleansed and in His sureness sure, Know that the years to come are sweet and pure. Forth from your troubled Past! How dark the days, How dreary and perplexed your wandering ways! Forget those fears and tears and scenes abhorred, And enter all the joyance of your Lord. Forth from your lonely Past! No comrade knew Your inner warfare for the good and true; But in the time to come till time shall end You shall not lack a comrade and a friend. Forth from your Past! 'Twas given you to build A Future from it, all with blessings filled. Enter its open gate, its liberal door, And live its happy lord for evermore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WINTRY WEATHER by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE by MATTHEW PRIOR ODES III, 29 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS THE DREARY CHANGE by WALTER SCOTT IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 115 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE ADMIRABLE CONVERSION OF S. PAUL by JOSEPH BEAUMONT SONG by FRANCOIS JOACHIM DE PIERRE DE BERNIS |