A LIGHT AT SEA

MARIE RUSSELL.

When shadows crept o'er sea and strand,
And somber lay the waters still,
With head down-dropped upon my hand
I mused beside my window-sill.

How sad my thoughts as thus I dreamed,
While deepened night's obscurity,
When sudden, in the distance gleamed
A ray of light far out at sea.

It came as would some glad surprise
We had not dared to reckon on,—
A problem solved,—a path that lies
In light, where erst no light had shone.

As gleamed that beam of light at sea,
When earthly ways lay dark, obscure,
Thus Love divine brought life to me,
And showed me glories that endure.

Before Truth's ray there disappeared
A host of doubts, the sense of doom;
Destroyed were evils I had feared,
Dispersed the mysteries of gloom.

How sweet, when shadows fall, and seems
To deepen life's complexity,
To know for all the world Truth gleams,
An ever-nearing light at sea!

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