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The Great Facts Of Christ's History
The traveller sees afar the mountain rise,And thinks that soon he'll reach, and scale its height;
He hastens on, but finds to his surprise,
No nearer grows the object to his sight.
So the great facts of Jesus' history stand,
While onward still we journey day by day;
In youth we see them seeming near at hand,
And think to master them without delay:
But, in the soul's horizon, high they tower
Above our common thoughts, and common ways,
And a long life will scarcely lend the power,
(So full is life of trifles and delays,)
To reach at last the glorious mount of God,
And climb the heights, on which the Savior trod.
Poem No. 585; c. 14 February 1857
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