<h2><SPAN name="poem38"></SPAN>THE UNIVERSAL ROUTE</h2>
<p class="poetry">As we journey along, with a laugh and a
song,<br/>
We see, on youth’s flower-decked slope,<br/>
Like a beacon of light, shining fair on the sight,<br/>
The beautiful Station of Hope.</p>
<p class="poetry">But the wheels of old Time roll along as we
climb,<br/>
And our youth speeds away on the years;<br/>
And with hearts that are numb with life’s sorrows we
come<br/>
To the mist-covered Station of Tears.</p>
<p class="poetry">Still onward we pass, where the milestones,
alas!<br/>
Are the tombs of our dead, to the West,<br/>
Where glitters and gleams, in the dying sunbeams,<br/>
The sweet, silent Station of Rest.</p>
<p class="poetry">All rest is but change, and no grave can estrange<br/>
The soul from its Parent above;<br/>
And, scorning the rod, it soars back to its God,<br/>
To the limitless City of Love.</p>
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