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I am the Way
Thy way is simple for I am the lightBy which thou travelest on to meet thy God
Brighter and brighter still shall be thy sight
Till thou hast ended here the path I trod
Before thee stretches far the thorny way
Yet smoothed for thee by him who went before
Go on it leads you to the perfect day
The rest I to the patriarch Abraham swore
Go on and I will guide you safely through
For I have walked with suffering feet thy path
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And thou shalt flee the approaching day of wrath
Whose dawn e'en now the horizon's border shows
And with its kindling fires prophetic glows.
Poem No. 591; fall 1838–summer 1839
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