Rest and Progression. A Poem
Improvement Era, vol. 7, no. 1, November 1903, p. 52
L. L. Greene Richards
REST AND PROGRESSION. BY L. L. GREENE RICHARDS.
[For the Improvement Era]
The struggle is ended, the labor is done; The battle is over, the victory won. As fierce was the conflict, so sweet is the peace Which comes to the wrestler, as life's troubles cease. Sleep on — sleep on —take now thy rest. Well-earned, among the faithful blest.
All this for the mortal, lain quietly down; The spirit, in heaven, receives a bright crown; A halo of glory, through righteousness shed Around the immortal, here mourned for as dead. — — Work on work on and still progress; , No hindrance now — no weariness. •
What knowledge, what mem'ries, forgotten at birth, (First union of spirit and body on earth,) Awake as the spirit to heaven ascends. Meets father and mother, dear kindred and friends. Truth, love, all pure intelligence, The glory of Omnipotence.
In humiliation, the Savior laid by His judgment; — his mission to suffer and die; The will of the Father to learn and obey; And man can but follow as he leads the way — On to perfection glory rife, "The Resurrection and the Life." Salt Lake City, October, 1903.