ALL SOULS.
I SAW a vision in the night, And through the clouds a misty light.
Below me in the myrtle trees The leaves were rustling in the breeze.
On horses red and bay and white The Guardians moved across my sight " 0 Lord," I spoke, "and who are these Who ride among the myrtle trees ?"' An angel stood and said to me : " Themselves shall tell thee Pilo they be."
The men cried: " We are they that go To do His bidding to and fro.
The Lord has bid us walk the earth To oversee man's death and birth.
We walked to-night to do His will And found the earth at peace and atill."
Then said I: " Lord, how can this be ?
If earth is not at peace with Thee.
For seventy years dust Thou condemn This Judah and Jerusalem."
The voice that answered was the Lord's
In good and comfortable words:
" Whoever fights the fight for Me Has peace for all eternity."
The sky behind the hills was grey.
The guardians sassing on their way Left me and all the myrtle-trees
To sing together in the breeze. r.
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