EUOHARIST.

EUOHARIST.
522.4

Thanks be for doubt that ends
In clearer light;
Thanks be for loss that lends
Fresh faith to sight.
Grew not the fallow brown,
Spring stood afar; Did not the sun go down,
Never a star.

Thanks be for shame that whips
On to emprise;
Thanks be for pain that strips
Self of disguise.
Through the quiet, common chord
Overtones thrill;
In the seed dropped abroad,
June liveth still.

Thanks be for life that lives
Stronger through strife;
Thanks be for death that gives
Ending to life.
Song of the silence born,
Freedom of thrall,
Spirit from flesh outworn-
Thanks be for all.
—Van Tassel Sutphen in Harper’s Monthly.