Poems (Coolidge)/Past, Present, Future
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Above me hung a darkening sky, Dense clouds obscured the blue; No ray of heavenborn light to cheer Or dying hopes renew; Yet, in the shadow, to thy hand, I, trustful, still did cling, And found a covert from the storm— Beneath thy sheltering wing.
Above me dawns a brightening sky, Through rifts I see the blue, A ray of hope doth bring me joy, Borne on the rainbow's hue; In cloud or sunshine, Lord, I see That Love ordaineth all; And, clinging still to strength divine, I may not faint or fall.
And when, for me, the cloudless sky Of Paradise shall shine, I'll know the love now "darkly" seen By these dim eyes of mine; Ah! then, my prayer, now feebly breathed, Shall lose itself in praise, Glad echoes through thy courts resound, For endless, happy days.