Mountain Spring and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="NO_OTHER" id="NO_OTHER" />NO OTHER</h2> <p><i>Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.</i>&mdash;Acts 4:12.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>Swiftly we float upon time's tide<br/></span> <span>Adown the stream of years.<br/></span> <span>Sometimes past hills of joy we glide,<br/></span> <span>Sometimes through vales of tears.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Age follows youth, which, ere we know,<br/></span> <span>Has vanished like a dream,<br/></span> <span>And takes its glamour from the glow<br/></span> <span>Of mem'ry's silvery gleam.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>There is no halt; and more and more<br/></span> <span>There seems an open sea<br/></span> <span>Reaching us with its ceaseless roar&mdash;<br/></span> <span>It is eternity.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>There is one Pilot that we need,<br/></span> <span>One who can safely steer,<br/></span> <span>One who at heaven's court can plead,<br/></span> <span>And all our journey cheer.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>'Tis Jesus Christ; and all who see<br/></span> <span>In him the truth, the way,<br/></span> <span>Are in possession of the key<br/></span> <span>To heaven's eternal day.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />