Century Magazine/Volume 49/Issue 1/Action
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< Century Magazine | Volume 49 | Issue 1
| ←At Candle-Lighting | Century Magazine by Volume 49, Issue 1 (November, 1894) Action |
A Puritan Thanksgiving→ |
"Wherefore is it that we live and die?"
Who thus questioned lived a life of light,
And full many a soul in sorrow's night
Blest him in its thought when out of sight;
While each child of misery passing by
Knew why he was born, but not why he should die.
"For God’s glory do we live and die:"
Who thus answered thrust the asker out
With the unforgiven, for his doubt;
Yet his own life was a silent flout
To the God whom it should glorify:
None knew why he was born, or why he should not die.
