Poem May 5, 1951 Issue

CLIMB!

(Exodus 34)

William Aubert Luce

With morning's radiance Moses rose
While Israel slept in dull repose;
He climbed the pathway up to God
While Israel clung to earthly sod.
On Sinai's peak he praised the day
While far below his comrades lay,
And in the sunshine of Mind's law
He carved on stone the truth he saw.
But in the valley by the hill
The tribe of Israel slumbered still.

When bade by Mind to scale that height.
Do we so clasp the shrouds of night?
Do we, as Israel, dread the day
That lights with Truth the upward way?
Awake from dreams, arise, and climb!
Scale now those mountain walls sublime.
Not in dark valleys shall we find
The light of Love, the law of Mind,
For on the highest peaks of thought
The tablets of God's law are wrought.

William Aubert Luce

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