XXXV
COMMEMORATION OF THE LIVING
There is a great past behind us, and the future as great
is in front.
Nunc Dimittis
How perfect is the peace of him
Whose work in life is done,
And space remains to count the gains
Of some high course outrun;
Who looking back on his past track
Can proudly lift his head
And truly claim for every aim—
This is consummated.
In spite of our dreaming and our seeming, we have
begun to touch the reality in this life, because the sacramental
body of man is the sum of all physical perfection
which it is possible for us here to conceive.
