Poems of Sentiment

<h2><SPAN name="page15"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>THE LAW</h2> <p class="poetry">The sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun<br/> Will sweep on its course till the cycle is run.<br/> And when into chaos the systems are hurled,<br/> Again shall the Builder reshape a new world.</p> <p class="poetry">Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal;<br/> Move on, for the orbit is fixed for your soul.<br/> And though it may lead into darkness of night,<br/> The torch of the Builder shall give it new light.</p> <p class="poetry">You were, and you will be: know this while you are.<br/> Your spirit has travelled both long and afar.<br/> It came from the Source, to the Source it returns;<br/> The spark that was lighted, eternally burns.</p> <p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page16"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>It slept in the jewel, it leaped in the wave,<br/> It roamed in the forest, it rose in the grave,<br/> It took on strange garbs for long &aelig;ons of years,<br/> And now in the soul of yourself it appears.</p> <p class="poetry">From body to body your spirit speeds on;<br/> It seeks a new form when the old one is gone;<br/> And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought<br/> On the loom of the mind, with the fibre of thought.</p> <p class="poetry">As dew is drawn upward, in rain to descend,<br/> Your thoughts drift away and in destiny blend.<br/> You cannot escape them; or petty, or great,<br/> Or evil, or noble, they fashion your fate.</p> <p class="poetry">Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow,<br/> Your life will reflect all the thoughts of your now.<br/> The law is unerring; no blood can atone;<br/> The structure you rear you must live in alone.</p> <p class="poetry">From cycle to cycle, through time and through space,<br/> Your lives with your longings will ever keep pace.<br/> And all that you ask for, and all you desire,<br/> Must come at your bidding, as flames out of fire.</p> <p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page17"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p. 17</span>Once list to that voice and all tumult is done,<br/> Your life is the life of the Infinite One;<br/> In the hurrying race you are conscious of pause,<br/> With love for the purpose and love for the cause.</p> <p class="poetry">You are your own devil, you are your own God,<br/> You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod,<br/> And no one can save you from error or sin,<br/> Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />