Stray Birds

Put out the lamp when thou wishest. I shall know thy darkness and shall love it. 290 When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. 291 Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, "I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man." 292 Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky. 293 Truth raises against itself the storm that scatters its seeds broadcast. 294 The storm of the last night has crowned this morning with golden peace. 295 Truth seems to come with its final word; and the final word gives birth to its next. 296 Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth. 297 Sweetness of thy name fills my heart when I forget mine--like thy morning sun when the mist is melted. 298 The silent night has the beauty of the mother and the clamorous day of the child. 299 The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed. 300 God waits for man to regain his childhood in wisdom. 301 Let me feel this world as thy love taking form, then my love will help it. 302 Thy sunshine smiles upon the winter days of my heart, never doubting of its spring flowers. 303 God kisses the finite in his love and man the infinite. 304 Thou crossest desert lands of barren years to reach the moment of