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FOLLOW THE PATTERN |
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LET
us take
to our hearts a lesson—no lesson can braver be—
From the
ways of the tapestry weavers on the
other side of the
sea.
Above
their heads the pattern hangs; they study it with
care;
The while their fingers deftly work, their eyes are fastened there.
They tell this curious thing, besides, of the patient, plodding weaver:
He works on the wrong
side evermore, but works for the right side ever.
It
is only when the weaving stops, and
the web is loosed and
turned,
That he sees his real handiwork—that his marvelous skill is learned.
Ah! the sight of its delicate beauty, how it
pays him for all his
cost!
No rarer, daintier work than his was ever done by the frost.
Then the master bringeth him golden hire, and giveth him praise as well;
And how happy the heart of the weaver is, no tongue
but his own can tell.
The
years of man are the looms of God, let down from the place of the
sun,
Wherein we are weaving alway, till the mystic web is done—
Weaving
blindly, but weaving sure, each for himself his
fate.
We may not see how the right side looks, we can only weave and wait.
But looking above for the pattern, no weaver
need have
fear;
Only let
him look clear into heaven—the perfect pattern is
there.
If
he keeps the face of the Savior forever
and always in
sight,
His toil shall be sweeter than honey, his weaving is sure to be right.
And when his task is ended, and the web is turned
and
shown,
He shall hear the voice of the Master, who shall say to him,
“Well
done!”
Since in copying thus the pattern,
he had laid his own will
down;
And God for his wages shall give him, not coin, but a glorious crown.
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