COMFORT IN THE DARK.
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Unfurl one banner, all embossed in crimson and in white, and this its motto."A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another."Then should I depart in peace, but now my life,Sore-tested, with the weight of its own infirmities doth grieve,That all so slow must this great rendering be."
"Centuries begin and end, and still shall man his brother slay,And knaves in high authority shall mock, and jeer at humble christian folk.That Science all too slow should trace, the secrets of the heaven's expanse,For with the grand discovery of peopled worlds of Heaven,There cometh signs of peace."Then thought I wandering in a valley deep, I saw one sitting at a loom of great proportion.He, slowly weaving threads of gold and black, of light and darkness, spake.
"Behold the tapestry of Time, behold the warp and woof of Life.For as the darkness and the light, do go together making day and night,Else, all too soon thou would'st weary of the day, and sigh for silence and for dark,So do the threads of sorrow and of pain,
