JESUS only would I follow
Through this vale of death’s dark shadow;
Shadows dark, and paths of sorrow:
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”
Without sun no shadows, could be,
So gazing up, I wait to see
It shine o’erhead, ―then shadows flee!
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”
Shadow of my Lord’s rejection!
Shadow of a curs’d creation!
Shadow of the saints’ inaction!
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”
Ah! darkly now these cross the way,
When glory shines they’ll fade away,
And darkest night be turn’d today:
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”
O, Jesus is the glorious way!
My heart doth dance hearing Him say,
Fear not! shadows must flee away;
Still wait―I will surely come!
A. C. C.