John Oxenham

Shadows

   Shadows are but for the moment—
   Quickly past;
   And then the sun the brighter shines
   That it was overcast.
 
   For Light is Life!
   Gracious and sweet,
   The fair life-giving sun doth scatter blessings
   With his light and heat,—
   And shadows.
   But the shadows that come of the life-giving sun
   Crouch at his feet.
 
   No mortal life but has its shadowed times—
   Not one!
   Life without shadow could not taste the full
   Sweet glory of the sun.
 
   No shadow falls, but there, behind it, stands
   The Light
   Behind the wrongs and sorrows of life’s troublous ways
   Stands RIGHT.
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