The Enthusiast

"Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him"

Shall hearts that beat no base retreat

In youth's magnanimous years -

Ignoble hold it, if discreet

When interest tames to fears;

Shall spirits that worship light

Perfidious deem its sacred glow,

Recant, and trudge where worldlings go,

Conform and own them right?

Shall Time with creeping influence cold

Unnerve and cow? The heart

Pine for the heartless ones enrolled

With palterers of the mart?

Shall faith abjure her skies,

Or pale probation blench her down

To shrink from Truth so still, so lone

Mid loud gregarious lies?

Each burning boat in Caesar's rear,

Flames -No return through me!

So put the torch to ties though dear,

If ties but tempters be.

Nor cringe if come the night:

Walk through the cloud to meet the pall,

Though light forsake thee, never fall

From fealty to light.