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26 THE CHILDREN OF
Earnestly prayed for his foes, for his murderers? Say, dost
thou know Him?
Ah! thou confessest his name, so follow likewise his
example,
Think of thy brother no ill, but throw a veil over his
failings,
Guide the erring aright; for the good, the heavenly
shepherd
Took the lost lamb in his arms, and bore it back to its
mother.
This is the fruit of love, and it is by its fruits that we
know it.
Love is the creature’s welfare, with God; but Love among
mortals
Is but an endless sigh! He longs, and endures, and stands
waiting,
Suffers and yet rejoices, and smiles with tears on his
eyelids.
Hope,—so is called upon earth, his recompense.—Hope,
the befriending,
Does what she can, for she points evermore up to heaven,
and faithful
Plunges her anchor’s peak in the depths of the grave, and
beneath it
Paints a more beautiful world, a dim, but a sweet play of
shadows!
Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering
promise,
Having naught else beside Hope. Then praise we our
Father in heaven,
Him, who has given us more; for to us has Hope been
illumined,
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