I HAVE SEEN HIM by Llewellyn A. Morrison

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1901

I HAVE SEEN HIM.

By Llewellyn A. Morrison

Llewellyn A. Morrison.

“Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty; they shall behold the land of far distance.” “Mine eyes have seen the King.”

I have seen Him at the midnight Moving over stellar spaces, And the white stars glowed to greet Him,— Their Beloved,—passing by; All His myriad, matchless beauties Mirrored in their shining faces, While pavilioned in His pureness By the splendor of the sky.

I have seen Him in the dawning, When the day was at its fairest, In the dew-pearls on the lilies, In the flowers that crowned the sod: On the crimson-banded cloud-way, Toned with loveliness the rarest,— In the landscape, on the rivers, I have caught a glimpse of God.

I have seen Him, by His sunbeams, On the mountains and the meadows, And His presence made the perfectness And brilliance of the scene; In the moonlight I have seen Him, Down amid the vales and shadows, And His harmony and sweetness Stored the silences, between.

I have seen Him by the wayside, Where the children laughed and gamboled,— Painting dimples, smiles, and roses On the face, and in the heart; I have walked the way beside Him Where the old man tottering, trembled; And His wings were nestling over When He called him to depart.

I have seen Him in His fullness And divineness at the even, Watching, wooing, winning mortals From the under-moil and strife, Outward, onward, upward, homeward, Into light, love, peace, and heaven, And the glory, rest, and blessing Of the everlasting life.