Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HITHERTO, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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First Line: To bluest skies that arch the way
Last Line: Have helped and cheered me hitherto.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): God; Gratitude; Prayer


TO bluest skies that arch the way
I lift my thankful eyes to-day.
The sunlight falls, a golden tide,
O'er airy forests, green and wide;
Pure odors drift the morning through,
And God has led me hitherto.

Sweet flower-perfumes thrill the air,
As if from censer swung at prayer;
And sweeter fragrance fills my life
With all my Father's goodness rife;
He gives me roses after rue,
And he has kept me hitherto.

What joy to take his guiding hand,
To trust, if not to understand,—
To rest through change and toil and tears
On him, whose grand eternal years
In ever living youth are new,
And cry, "He leads me hitherto."

Though other days have left their trace
Of weariness upon my face;
Though sometimes from my harp the tone
Hath been a miserere moan;
Yet God is good; 't is his to do,
And mine to follow hitherto.

Though days to come may often be
With burdens crowded full for me;
Though hope deferred may cast a shade
Across my spirit; undismayed
I'll meet them, one by one, for through
Such days He brought me hitherto.

No darkest night shall ever hide
This beacon, flaming o'er the tide;
My life shall have a sweet refrain;
For, victor over grief and pain,
I bless the Lord, whose mercies new
Have helped and cheered me hitherto.





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