One Only

In the (lawnlne of days, o anclc-nt That Time with lts trenjuloas beat Oonld nevcr toll off or ennumber Tlie years with tbeir hurrj'ing feet, The high Ciod Bat deftl)' spinnluj; - Through ages anl a;ons hé wrought, Whlle stars and thelr worlds were ïashionec In the bieath of a niarvelous thought. Tin the votil and the darkness were pcopled And the white shluüii; angels that gniw From the web of Hls Infinite power Each trembled, and wondercd, and knew That their Mnker was God, and theü' uiissio To learn His desire - and do ! He eat In the sllcnoe, the centre Of all that had been or could be. He rode o'cr the ages, as countle&s ia sands 'neath the snrge of the sea, And erery beart-pulse of creatlon Proved Qod-and none other thau He! Ift the cool falling shailows of evoti, While the wotirj of men were at rest, Ajttd the mothers of Israel sang sof tly With baby-lips pressed to the breast, There knelt In thc'pardeu a we:in And hard-burdened Man aiuoiig men ; And the ahadows grew dark as Ile liugered, And darker stlll faüliip; and then He plcaded the. cup mignt be taken Away from His lip - bnt the cross Looraed upjin the dlstancc and clnfinedHim - Tet the World w the prlce of lus loss ! In tbe poesion&te stress of tbe garden, In the plteous death 011 Ulo tice, In the white lifc He liveil, as He wandered Unfrieodly In dark Galilrc ; In the Gospel He gave as lic lold lt In lore on tbe raount by (he sea - Was proTel tbc Dlyjce aml tliat Jcsus Ws God - and none ollitr then