To the Light.
Reading edition
I.
To the Light! To the Light! Let us climb to the Star That is swinging above where the benisons are, Till we rest in the meadows where blossom above All the daisies of Peace and the roses of Love!
II.
From the dim and the dusk of the blood-sprinkled years, How the nations have toiled from the valleys of tears,— How the races have groped through the shadows of Wrong To the gladness of Joy and the music of Song!
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And the Man with the Race, how he leaps from the woe Of the battle fields dead and the sorrows they know,— How he gathers his tents from the dark of the night Till he finds a sweet home in the gardens of light!
IV.
Oh, the thousands that fell by the mountains and stream Where the men of the past spilt their blood for a dream! How the feet, ever striving, slow stepped from the past Till they found the sweet music of rapture at last!
V.
To the Light! To the Light! Yonder still shines the Star That is waiting for us where the benisons are, And there in the meadows that blossom above We shall gather in peace all the roses of Love!