Poem November 13, 1937 Issue

"There is a spirit in man"

(Job 32:8)

ALICE JACQUELINE SHAW

"There is a spirit in man," and the breath
Of the Almighty giveth him power.
This spirit is not frozen by death,
Nor in a treacherous hour
Is it extinguished. It lives on,
Whatever winds may blow.
Friends may be gone,
And enmity its false face show,
But like an undying fire
The spirit of Truth still blazes
Beyond the utmost peaks of our desire.
And through the mazes
Of the world's shifting ways,
It gleams and beckons till,
In spite of tarrying and old delays,
We hold it firmly. Now at last we know—
Purged of our fears—what Truth can be. Our sore
And heavy footsteps grow
Light on the pastures. What we bore,
What evils and what hardships, now but seem
The frail faint shadows of some waking dream.
"There is a spirit in man." To every hour
The Science of the Christ hath given power.

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