THE RIVER OF TIME by Marion Bernstein

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 24.

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THE RIVER OF TIME.

By Marion Bernstein

Roll on, thou mighty river, Roll onward to the sea, The ocean of forever— Immense eternity.

Thou bearest on thy bosom All things that live and die: The hopes that bud and blossom, And all too soon must fly;

The cares of kings and nations, The woes that war imparts; The hidden desolations Of broken homes and hearts;

The joy, the fear, the trouble, The envy, love, and strife, That color this vain bubble That mortal men call life.

Roll on, thou mighty river, Resistless in thy course; For none can stem thy current, Nor aught oppose thy force.

Roll on, thou mighty river; At last thy fate will be To lose thyself forever In vast eternity.

MARION BERNSTEIN.

5, Dunrobin Place, Paisley Road, Glasgow.

NOTE.—The above will form part of a new volume of songs and poems, entitled “Mirren’s Musings,” which will be published as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers have sent in their names to the authoress. Price 2s. 6d. Cloth, gilt edges, with portrait.