Mountain Spring and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="DAYBREAK" id="DAYBREAK" />DAYBREAK</h2> <p><i>Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.</i>&mdash;Song of Solomon 4:6.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>Gleaming softly, silvery-faint,<br/></span> <span>Heralded by chanticleer,<br/></span> <span>Merging from night's shadowy taint,<br/></span> <span>New day of the passing year!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Born to bless or born to blight,<br/></span> <span>Born for you and born for me,<br/></span> <span>Leaving, ere it take its flight,<br/></span> <span>Impress on eternity!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>'Tis a gift from God's own hand.<br/></span> <span>On its pure unsullied page<br/></span> <span>Let us write at his command<br/></span> <span>What will bless our pilgrimage.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>True repentance giveth joy<br/></span> <span>To the angels in the sky.<br/></span> <span>What could be more blest employ<br/></span> <span>Than to cheer the choirs on high?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Deeds of patience, deeds of love,<br/></span> <span>Banishing all hate and guile&mdash;<br/></span> <span>These will steer toward heaven above,<br/></span> <span>These will make the angels smile.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>May this child of time unite<br/></span> <span>Earth and heaven in blest accord,<br/></span> <span>Heathen nations see the light<br/></span> <span>From the cross of Christ our Lord.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Coming is the glad daybreak,<br/></span> <span>The prophetic jubilee;<br/></span> <span>Sin will then all hearts forsake,<br/></span> <span>Then will all the shadows flee.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />