Poems (Coolidge)/Go Blithely

by Helen Elizabeth Coolidge

GO BLITHELY

Give us to go blithely on our business all this day.—Robert Louis Stevenson

Go blithely! for to serve thy God
 A joy should ever be;
Rejoice! lift up the head,—the heart,—
 From sadness be thou free.

Go blithely! Footsore, weary, thou?
 His footsteps went before;
Nor lagging tread, nor downcast mien,
 Thy Saviour can adore.

Go blithely! See! a Pillar glows!
 No night of darkness, thine!
Or one of cloud this day will light
 By radiance divine.