Beginning Again

When Bonnetimes our Peet grow weary On the rugged hills of Ufe, Tiie jniili sretcUlng long and dreary, With trial and labor rile. We pause on the npward journeyj Glaucinr backwanl u'er vnlley and glen. And siih with iin Infinite loDgiug To return and "beg n again"; i". .; behind is tlio dew of the mornlngr, ' i: il ;iH its freshness and ll?ht, And before ua aredoubïs and shaddnws And tlie eh i lis and y loom of the uigtat ; And we tb i uk of thesunny places We passed socarelessly then. Ai d we slgh, "O Pather, permit us To return auü 'begin agahi.1 " Wc tbink of tlie man y dear ones Whose lives toached oura ut times. AViiose loving thonght and pleasant srallea Fioat back lie vesper chimes, And we sadly remera oer i urdens We migbt nave ligh tened then- Ah. gladly would we ease them, f'ould webpgin agnin." Aii't vet how vain the asking! LI f e's dut i es presa dj of us on, A mi wh o wou ld shrlrk f rom the burden, Or slgh lor the sunshine that'a soue? And it niay be not far on before us W'ait places fairer that then ; Our paths mayyet lead by stilt waters, Though we ma y not "bein agaln." Yes upward and onward forever Be our paths on the hills of life, Hut ere long a radlant duwning Wil] glorifv tr+al and strife. And our Fathers hand will lead us Teuderly upward then; In the joy and peace of tlie better world He'll let us "begin a ga in."