<h2><SPAN name="page13"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>EXISTENCE</h2>
<p class="poetry">You are here, and you are wanted,<br/>
Though a waif upon life’s stair;<br/>
Though the sunlit hours are haunted<br/>
With the shadowy shapes of care.<br/>
Still the Great One, the All-Seeing<br/>
Called your spirit into being—<br/>
Gave you strength for any fate.<br/>
Since your life by Him was needed,<br/>
All your ways by Him are heeded—<br/>
You can trust and you can wait.</p>
<p class="poetry">You can wait to know the meaning<br/>
Of the troubles sent your soul;<br/>
Of the chasms intervening<br/>
’Twixt your purpose and your goal;<br/>
Of the sorrows and the trials,<br/>
Of the silence and denials,<br/>
Ofttimes answering to your pleas;<br/>
Of the stinted sweets of pleasure,<br/>
And of pain’s too generous measure—<br/>
You can wait the <i>why</i> of these.</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page14"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
14</span>Forth from planet unto planet,<br/>
You have gone, and you will go.<br/>
Space is vast, but we must span it;<br/>
For life’s purpose is <i>to know</i>.<br/>
Earth retains you but a minute,<br/>
Make the best of what lies in it;<br/>
Light the pathway where you are.<br/>
There is nothing worth the doing<br/>
That will leave regret or rueing,<br/>
As you speed from star to star.</p>
<p class="poetry">You are part of the Beginning,<br/>
You are parcel of To-day.<br/>
When He set His world to spinning<br/>
You were flung upon your way.<br/>
When the system falls to pieces,<br/>
When this pulsing epoch ceases,<br/>
When the <i>is</i> becomes the <i>was</i>,<br/>
You will live, for you will enter<br/>
In the great Creative Centre,<br/>
In the All-Enduring Cause.</p>
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