There Is No Royal Road To God

There is no royal road to God ! The humblest clod ■Vlio kneels him down and dares Send one or IU8ybe niauy prayei's l"p to the heart i hut walts At Mercy's onen pites Treads it, aye, is tbe eleot have trod ! There is no royal rnad to God ! The cbastenlng rod Of ConBcience bas a strinst Alike for beggai and for klnit. And if each soul oliey What, then, can load them far astray Though oue be bai e 01 ïoot and one most richly Bhod? There is no royal road to God ! The oonunon mmJ Are vef ihonjih on a throne, Or bom low dovi to grief and moan. All our luherllance ia iliis: A thorongblare to Eteroal Bliss, That, if our eyes but see, is smooth and broad.