Vision

ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY

"This is woman's hour, with all its sweet amenities and its moral and religious reforms." — No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 45.

As in a vision
I beheld the long, long trail —
Vast wilderness, with here and there a bloom
Spreading persistent grace,
That starred the arid reaches.

And all along the trail
The women passed, each with a burden;
And some bore their burden as a cross,
And staggered on, brows bent to earth,
Still unaware of guiding fire and pillared cloud of promise;