Sabbath Days by Vaughan

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1862

Sabbath Days.

By Vaughan

EMBLEMS of heavenly rest—fair buds of bliss, In heavenly flowers unfolding week by week; The next world's gladness, imaged forth in this— Days of whose worth the Christian heart can speak.

Eternity in Time—the steps by which We climb to future ages—lamps that light Man through his darker days, and thought enrich, Yielding redemption for the week's dull flight.

A milky-way marked out through skies else drear, By radiant suns that warn as well as shine; A clue which he who follows knows no fear, Though briars and thorns around his pathway twine.

Days fixed by God for intercourse with dust, To raise our thoughts and purify our powers; Periods appointed to renew our trust— A gleam of glory after six days' showers.

Foretastes of heaven and earth—pledges of joy, Surpassing fancy's flight and fiction's story— The preludes of a feast that cannot cloy, And the bright out-courts of immortal glory. [Vaughan.