Zinzendorff and Other Poems/"I will arise and go unto my Father"

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4047531Zinzendorff and Other Poems"I will arise and go unto my Father"1836Lydia Huntley Sigourney


"I WILL ARISE AND GO UNTO MY FATHER."


Wanderer, amid the snares
    Of Time's uncertain way,
Of thousand nameless fears the sport,
    Of countless ills the prey:

A stranger 'mid the land
    Where thy probation lies,
In peril from each adverse blast
    And e'en from prosperous skies,

In peril from thy friends,
    In peril from thy foes,
In peril from the rebel heart
    That in thy bosom glows;

Hast thou no Father's house
    Beyond this pilgrim scene,
That thou on Earth's delusive props
    With bleeding breast dost lean?


Yet not a Mother's care
    Who for her infant sighs,
When absence shuts it from her arms
    Or sickness dims its eye,

Transcends the love divine,
    The welcome full and free,
With which the glorious King of Heaven
    Will stretch his arms to thee,

When thou with contrite tear
    Shalt wait within his walls,
Imploring but the broken bread
    That from his table falls.

No more his mansion shun,
    No more distrust his grace,
Turn from the orphanage of earth
    And find a Sire's embrace.