Obedience
By George MacDonald
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Obedience
By George MacDonald
(1824-1905)

I said: �Let me walk in the fields.�
He said: �No, walk in the town.�
I said: �There are no flowers there.�
He said: �No flowers, but a crown.�

I said: �But the skies are black;
There is nothing but noise and din.�
And He wept as He sent me back �
�There is more,� He said; �there is sin.�

I said: �But the air is thick,
And fogs are veiling the sun.�
He answered: �Yet souls are sick,
And souls in the dark undone!�

I said: �I shall miss the light,
And friends will miss me, they say.�
He answered: �Choose tonight
If I am to miss you or they.�

I pleaded for time to be given.
He said: �Is it hard to decide?
It will not seem so hard in heaven
To have followed the steps of your Guide.�

I cast one look at the fields,
Then set my face to the town;
He said, �My child, do you yield?
Will you leave the flowers for the crown?�

Then into His hand went mine;
And into my heart came He;
And I walk in a light divine,
The path I had feared to see.

 

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