Requiescence

INEZ CAMPBELL

Pursuant of the truth I dwell in ecstasy,
Nor find the pathway dull nor hard to tread;
Each new effect unto its cause is wed,
One light supreme, divine, in all around I see.

No carping care can enter Mind's great calm domain;
All wrong as ignorance alone I know,
Right acts from better understanding flow;
Where sense feels direst loss I know it all as gain.

There is no fickle chance, naught but all-present law,
No boding fate, save what we weakly fear;
The reading of our lives needs not a seer—
Prophets all were they who life's unwavering purpose saw.

Since I have realized the "ours," not "mine" or "thine,"
The joy that comes in knowing all one's own,
Transcendent peace has made my heart its throne;
From beauteous day to day I am vouchsafed a sign.

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