Sometime, and Other Poems

SOMETIME, when all lifes lessons have been learned, And sun and stars forevermore have set, The things which our weak judgments here have spurned, The things oer which we gricvcd with lashes wet, Will flash before us out of lifes dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue And we shall see how all Gods plans are right, And how what seemed reproof was love most true. And we shall scc how, while we frown and sigh, Gods plans go on as best for you and me, - How, when we called, he needcd not our cry, Because his wisdom to the end could see. And even as wise parcnts disallow Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, - So God, perhaps, is keeping from us now Lifes sweetest things, because it seemeth good...