'Now I see!' But not the parting Of the melting earth and sky, Not a vision dread and startling, Forcing one despairing cry. But I see the solemn saying, All have sinned, and all must die; Holy precepts disobeying, Guilty all the world must lie. Bending, silenced, to the dust, Now I see that God is just. 'Now I see!' But not the glory, Not the face of Him I love, Not the full and burning story Of the mysteries above. But I see what God hath spoken, How His well-belovèd Son Kept the laws which man hath broken, Died for sins which man hath done; Dying, rising, throned above! 'Now I see' that God is Love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE, IN A STORM by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH NURSERY REMINISCENCES by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM PIONEERS OF DETROIT by LEVI BISHOP JIM'S WHIP by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE A SPRING THOUGHT by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 4 by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. |