TOO LATE!

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 20, 1862

THERE is a deep pathos in this lyric of Tennyson, which may apply more truly to those shut out from the marriage supper of the Lamb, than to those into whose lips he put it.

Late, late—so late—and dark and chill the night! Late, late—so late—but we can enter still. Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.

No light had we, for that we do repent. And, learning this the bridegroom will relent. Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.

No light,—so late—and dark and chill the night! O! let us in, that we may find the light! Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.

Have we not heard the bridegroom is so sweet? O! let us in, though late, to kiss his feet! No, no—too late! ye cannot enter now.