The tide of time flows sparkling, The tide of time flows sparkling, And sympathy like change will keep, The tide of time flows sparkling, E CXXXVI. DARKNESS shrouded Calvary, An earthquake rent the Temple's veil; Human grief and human fear Uttered mournful wail: There came a voice like light athwart the skies, "To-day thou'lt be with me in Paradise." Darkness shrouds humanity, When death doth sunder heart from heart; Human love and human hope Cannot bear to part: Again that voice is heard athwart the skies, "To-day thou'lt be with me in Paradise." JEWS were wrought to cruel madness; At its foot her foot she planted, Poets oft have sung her story, But no worship, song, or glory, And when, under fierce oppression, But if love be there, true-hearted, Mary stands the cross beside. FAIR lilies of Jerusalem, Ye wear the same array, By sacred Jordan's desert tide As when your simple charms outvied Ye flourished when the captive band, In hostile lands to weep and dream Ye have survived Judea's throne, And seen proud Salem sitting lone, But, lilies of Jerusalem, Through every change ye shine; Your golden urns unfading gem The fields of Palestine! SPRING, summer, autumn, winter, Winds blow, suns set, and morning saith, "Ye hills, put on your gold.” The song of Homer liveth, Thy splendid name, Pythagoras, But Babylon and Memphis Are letters traced in dust: Read them, earth's tyrants! ponder well The might in which ye trust! They rose, while all the depths of guilt Truth, mercy, knowledge, justice, They build their temples in the soul, And work with God's right hand. |