Gen. ii. 18; Eph. v. 32.
In
the Paradise of glory
Is
the Man
Divine;
There
my heart, O God, is tasting
Fellowship
with
Thine.
Called
to share Thy joy unmeasured,
Now
is heaven
begun;
I
rejoice with Thee, O Father,
In
Thy glorious
Son.
Where
the heart of God is resting,
I
have found my
rest;
Christ
who found me in the desert,
Laid
me on His
breast.
There
in deep unhindered fulness
Doth
my joy flow
free--
On
through everlasting ages,
Lord,
beholding
Thee.
Round
me is creation groaning,
Death,
and sin, and
care;
But
there is a rest remaning,
And
my Lord is
there.
There
I find a blessed stillness
In
His courts of
love;
All
below but strife and darkness,
Cloudless
peace
above.
'Tis
a solitary pathway
To
that fair
retreat--
Where
in deep and sweet communion
Sit
I at His
feet.
In
that glorious isolation,
Loneliness
how
blest,
From
the windy storm and tempest
Have
I found my
rest.
Learning
from Thy lips for ever
All
the Father's
heart,
Thou
hast, in that joy eternal,
Chosen
me my
part.
There,
where Jesus, Jesus only,
Fills
each heart and
tongue,
Where
Himself is all the radiance
And
Himself the
song.
Here,
who follows Him the nearest,
Needs
must walk
alone;
There
like many seas the chorus,
Praise
surrounds the
throne.
Here
a dark and silent pathway;
In
those courts so
fair
Countless
hosts, yet each beholding
Jesus
only,
there.
T. P.