Poems (Gifford)/A Greeting
A GREETINGTo Old Schoolfellows and Successors.(Written for the first number of a School Magazine.)
Wide scattered, and divided many a way, Yet to one well-known centre strongly bound, Where o'er rich teaching the glad Gospel soundRang out in bygone years, and rings to-day,Across all distances we speak and say That of true lessons learnt on the same ground, Or light and easy, or sublime, profound,The name of Jesus holds strong, gentle sway,And sweet that matchless theme, and simply grand, Storage of wisdom, or for age or youth, The full embodiment of grace and truth,That e'en the ignorant may understand. Be this our unity all bonds above, Love to the Master, born of His great love!