Zinzendorff and Other Poems/"O come! let us walk in the light of the Lord"

4047030Zinzendorff and Other Poems"O come! let us walk in the light of the Lord"1836Lydia Huntley Sigourney



"O, come! let us walk in the light of the Lord."—Isaiah ii 5.

 
Hope sheds on man's first waking hours
    A lustre pure and fair,
And as his mind unfolds its powers
    Her cheering smile is there:
But when his feet life's pathway tread
    And his torn bosom bleeds,
And darkening ills around him spread
    Her taper's ray recedes.

A brighter torch doth Pleasure boast
    To lure his youthful way,
A meteor on a rocky coast
    That dazzles to betray.
But woe if his confiding heart
    Be with her fetters bound,
The syren hath a poison'd dart
    And loves a secret wound.

God hath a light. It beams sublime
    On every seeking eye,
When withering 'neath the blasts of time
    Both hope and pleasure die:
That light we'll seek. Its ray hath power
    To pierce the shrouded tomb,
And guide where tempests never lower
    And sorrow dares not come.