Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By The Prisoner of Love (1904). IX. Who goes Home?Frederick William Orde Ward (18431922)
Heb. xiii. 14.
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On the journey thou dost tread?
Every clod is heavenly ground,
Or a graveyard of the dead;
As thou makest it by deed
Charnal roof or church’s dome,
Bleaching bones or blessèd seed—
Who goes Home?
Takes thee nearer to the close
Of thy mortal pilgrimage—
Dust of doom or Sharon’s Rose;
Each new step is something lost,
Something gained, whate’er may come—
Soon thy Jordan must be crost—
Who goes Home?
Walketh Enemy or Friend,
But alone the crucified
Find the way is also end;
Hours and moments lightly flit,
God will shut thy earthly time
When the final page is writ—
Who goes Home?