RESCUED.
LIKE a belated traveler in the snow
I wandered, jostled to and fro by wind
Of doubt and fear; and having half a mind
To lay me down nor farther strive to go.
When suddenly our distant pathways met:
You did not stop for counsel wise and vain
But took my heart half numb with cold and pain
Into the warmth of yours: my heart you set
Within the open doorway of your life,
In the warm glow of your all-sheltering love.
Since then I dwell where rush and turmoil cease:
Facing the bitter weather never rove;
Here shines love's radiance, and all stormy strife
Sounds dim and distant; here I touch God's peace.
I wandered, jostled to and fro by wind
Of doubt and fear; and having half a mind
To lay me down nor farther strive to go.
When suddenly our distant pathways met:
You did not stop for counsel wise and vain
But took my heart half numb with cold and pain
Into the warmth of yours: my heart you set
Within the open doorway of your life,
In the warm glow of your all-sheltering love.
Since then I dwell where rush and turmoil cease:
Facing the bitter weather never rove;
Here shines love's radiance, and all stormy strife
Sounds dim and distant; here I touch God's peace.