Poem March 17, 1951 Issue

TIME NO LONGER

Stanley Oliphant Batt

The dreamy past, the future we would scan,
hold nothing more than now can give to man.
The voice that spoke to Moses from the flame
revealed to Mary God's eternal name;
and Paul's assurance comes as freely still
as though we also stood upon Mars' Hill
with those who raised to God an altar stone
in superstitious dread of the unknown.
The fisherfolk who gladly left the sea
to listen to the man of Galilee,
the widow's son raised from the bier at Nain,
heard nothing more than we that instant gain
when sense is stilled and Mind its joys imparts
to all receptive, pure, and honest hearts.
For Science has declared the truth abroad
that man reflects his Father-Mother God.
No past, no future! Time is proved a sham,
for God is Life, is All, the great I AM.