THREE WORDS by Schiller

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1902

THREE WORDS.

By Schiller

THERE are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men.

Have hope! The clouds environ round, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow; No night but hath its morn!

Have faith! Where'er thy bark is driven, The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

Have love! Not love alone for one, But man, as man, thy brother call, And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all.

Thus grave these lessons on thy soul,— Hope, faith, and love,—and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else wert blind!

—Schiller.