<h2><SPAN name="page86"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>SHADOWS</h2>
<p class="poetry">I am sorry in the gladness<br/>
Of the joys that crown my days,<br/>
For the souls that sit in sadness<br/>
Or walk uninviting ways.</p>
<p class="poetry">On the radiance of my labour<br/>
That a loving fate bestowed,<br/>
Falls the shadow of my neighbour,<br/>
Crushed beneath a thankless load.</p>
<p class="poetry">As the canticle of pleasure<br/>
From my lovelit altar rolls,<br/>
There is one discordant measure,<br/>
As I think of homeless souls.</p>
<p class="poetry">And I know that grim old story,<br/>
Preached from pulpits, is not so,<br/>
For no God could sit in glory<br/>
And see sinners writhe below.</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page87"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
87</span>In that great eternal Centre<br/>
Where all human life has birth,<br/>
Boundless love and pity enter<br/>
And flow downward to the earth.</p>
<p class="poetry">And all souls in sin or sorrow<br/>
Are but passing through the night,<br/>
And I know on some to-morrow<br/>
God will love them into light.</p>
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