SHADOWS

Shadows are but for the moment —

Quickly past;

And then the sun the brighter shines

That it was overcast.

For Light is Life!

Gracious and sweet,

The fair life-giving sun doth scatter blessings

With his light and heat,—

And shadows.

But the shadows that come of the life-giving sun

Crouch at his feet.

No mortal life but has its shadowed times —

Not one!

Life without shadow could not taste the full

Sweet glory of the sun.

No shadow falls, but there, behind it, stands

The Light

Behind the wrongs and sorrows of life's troublous ways

Stands RIGHT.