In Memoriam: A Poem
Improvement Era, vol. 8, no. 2, December 1904, p. 98
Horne, Henry E.
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IN MEMORIAM.
When Joseph in his prison cell For Christ a worthy martyr lay, A sudden light from heaven fell, His midnight agony to stay; And failing ears heard seraph choirs, And clouded eyes rejoiced to see Angelic hosts above the spires Of new Jerusalem to be.
Then once again his people trod With bleeding feet the wilderness, And found a refuge, under God, From cruel foes so pitiless, Where Ensign's tow'ring peak doth rise An emblem of his spirit fled, And saline waters symbolize The tears the persecuted shed.
His memory today we praise, And laud his ever-blessed name, Whom God did from his fellows raise, Christ's second coming to proclaim. The wild world goes its own dark way, Nor heeds Evangelism restored; But, as our Prophet taught, we pray, And wait the advent of the Lord.
0! Prophet Martyr, lead us still, In spirit, through the troubled years, Across life's mountains strewn with ill, And down its valleys dark with fears. Till death and sin and sorrow end, And earth beholds thy face again, When Jesus and his saints descend In everlasting joy to reign. Henry E. HorNe. Old Castle, Leadville, N. S. W., Australia.