LEAVING THE FLOWER FOR THE CROWN
(Obedience)
George MacDonald
I said, “Let me walk in the field.”
He said, “No, walk in the town.”
I said, “There are no flowers there.”
He said, “No flowers, but a crown.”
I said, “But the skies are black,
There is nothing but noise and din.”
And He wept as He sent me back.
“There is more,” He said; “there is sin.”
I said, “But the air is thick
And fogs are veiling the sun.”
He answered, “Yet souls are sick,
And souls in the dark undone.”
I said, “I shall miss the light,
And friends will miss me, they say.”
He answered, “Choose tonight
If I am to miss you, or they.”
I pleaded for time to be given.
He said, “Is it hard to decide?
It will not seem hard in Heaven
To have followed the steps of your Guide.”
I cast one look at the fields,
Then set my face to the town;
He said: My child, do you yield?
Will you leave the flowers for the crown?
Then into His hand went mine;
And into my heart came He;
And I walk in a light divine,
The path I had feared to see
publicado na revista Rays from The Rose Cross, nº desconhecido
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