II.

"Could ye not watch with me one hour?" O heart Of Christ, still longing in the bitterest hour For human sympathy and love to shower A needed strength beyond words to impart! Humanity is richer for this art Of seeing in poor finite man a power— Before which even ministering angels cower— To know all truth, e'en dread Gethsemane's smart. Alas! the power to know will bring the pain. But through the pain of wisdom's true insight Is Christ's own perfect sympathy made plain. Possessed of this, we see in tenderest light His sorrowing heart in failing to obtain The longed-for love in hour of darkest night.