THE PILGRIM.
When I am recompensed and lean secure Against the white cairn of the far hill-top, Let me not then—l pray thee, King of Heaven— Hinder the other pilgrim who ascends By the same harsh, forbidding ways I climbed; Perhaps a worthier than I, and armed With brighter buckler, more celestial blade, Yet railing with parched tongue because he bleeds.
Remind me well when I shall say, “ Desist! ” When I cry out, “ Judgment belongs to Heaven I Look to your feet in quiet, rouse not the Fiend; You show a foraying spirit else, not God’s,” Blasting him from my fastness when he rails.
Remind me, King of Heaven, bestow thy
power, That I may lean to him with flickering brain, Smite so upon the silence, lend him my mind, Be to his arm a shadowy minister. For thus, unseen, throughout Heaven's Uni-
verse, Thought marches swift to action, glows to power, ° And lives are nourished down dim distances.
Remind me, King of Heaven, that when I climbed, Troubled and bleeding, up the mountain flanks I etill could see the sun, while ministers Of tenderest kindness drifted to my eide Ana thy white manna fell ere flash of Dav. Remind my soul how each must climb his way.
—Herbert E. Palmer, in the Adelphi.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 74
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