Look Above

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1903

Look high, O soul! for what is earth but dust? The fleeting shadow of the better things? The heavens are thine if thou wilt use thy wings, And sighs are songs if thou wilt only trust.

Aim high, O soul! for on the higher forms Is always room, while lower ranks are filled; Who climbs the heights finds all earth’s noises stilled, And a sweet calm and light above the storms.

Be high, O soul! scorn what is low and base. “Child of a king,” they call thee; be a king, And troops of vassals will their tributes bring To crown thee heir of glory, child of grace.

— Unknown.