UK Bible Students Website.Poem for the Day | ||||||||
“AND THERE WAS A GREAT
CALM” |
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AS the green waves bear on their crest
The foam, and
ever shoreward come,
So, moving surely to
our rest,
Slowly we all like
bits of foam
Come drifting home.
He
whom we loved has reached the shore
In
peace; and all the billows vast—
The stormy waves of
life that bore
Him on—have ceased
their strife at last.
The storm is past!
We
thought, because the waves of life
Were high and rough,
the end would be
‘Mid scenes of tumult
and of strife,
As
mighty billows of the sea
Break loud and free.
But there was calm
instead ! The waves
Of life were stilled,
and up the strand
Slipped noiselessly,
as ocean laves
In quietness the
silver sand,
An ending grand!
How sweet to know his
weary life
At last to rest and
quiet wore!
Oh,may we all, through
peace or strife,
Be
gathered on that silver shore
For evermore!
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