The Light from Within
I saw on earth another light Than that which lit my eye Come forth as from my soul within, And from a higher sky. Its beams shone still unclouded on, When in the farthest west The sun I once had known had sunk Forever to his rest. And on I walked, though dark the night, Nor rose his orb by day; As one who by a surer guide Was pointed out the way. 'Twas brighter far than noonday's beam; It shone from God within, And lit, as by a lamp from heaven, The world's dark track of sin.
Jones Very’s other poems:
