The Home Circle by Sally Neill Roach

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 29.

The Home Circle.

By Sally Neill Roach

A THOUGHT.

BACK and forth across the woof of years The shuttle of each life the weaver throws; And here and there small bits, whence no one knows, Link with the thread the mystic pattern weaving, Then lose themselves amid the smiles and tears Which o'er the web are lights and shadows leaving.

We heed them not—those fragments interlacing With ours some life that crossed our path one day (So many seem the tangled threads that stray), Until amazed we pause, some figure tracing Thrown up in bold relief, and see and know The thread whose worth we failed to understand, But now whose wondrous beauty serves to show The matchless wisdom of the Master Hand.

—Sally Neill Roach, in the Current.