Once More Upon The Earth Poem by Richard (Narad) Eggenberger

Once More Upon the Earth

Now shall I take my sorrows and my joys
And like a blanket of peace and tenderness
Lightly upon this bed of earthly cares
Cover them and hide from prying eyes
The beauty and the sweetness I have known
Late when the advancing years have crept
Stealthily into this aging house.
Protect your dreams my children from the world
That would devour truth and good and right.
The way before you opens like a rose
With morning's first caress upon its buds.
To live in light beyond the reason's scope,
To labour for the world that is to be
As we watch the dying generations fall,
The spirit calls and our consent awaits.
Let not the human passions sway your soul
Or tempt you from the pathway to the Dawn,
Trust in your heart that you have come to leap
The barriers of moral rectitude,
To live in beauty and ever to embrace
The heights that lean to pilgrim souls that dare,
Who shun deception's ways, look straight at death
That God may walk once more upon the earth,
And all of heaven's glory here descend.