Twilight Thoughts by Mrs. A. M. Avery-Harper

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 5, 1915

Twilight Thoughts

By Mrs. A. M. Avery-Harper

MRS. A. M. AVERY-HARPER

I FACE the golden sunset sky, As evening shadows fall tonight; The day, with all its beauty fades, And gleaming stars seem wondrous bright.

And over ’cross the plains I see, Beyond the hills so green and fair, The mountains rise majestically, In stately grandeur pictured there.

And oft I fancy I can see The glowing radiance from afar, The gleaming splendor of that light Which shines from gates that stand ajar.

I hear the music of the spheres, And long to join the angel band,— To dwell throughout the endless years Mid all the splendors of that land.

Though here on earth are toil and woe, I see delightful gardens there, And to those mansions I would go, To Eden’s fragrance sweet and rare.

O city bright, whose unbarred gates Shall open soon for all the blest, What glory in thy home awaits The wearied ones, who soon shall rest!