WALKING SOFTLY.
It is so big a thing —and yet so small— This walking softly through the crowded days Wearing the cloak of patience, the warm shawl Of quiet understanding of life’s ways.
The criss-cross pattern on the loom is strange And intricate to eyes that do not see The endless turning of the wheel of change Along the highway towards Divinity;
The endless lifting up and weaving in Threads of experience; the cults and creeds Of creeping centuries; the silken thin Fibre of human love for living needs.
It is so small a thing to say, “I wait.” And yet so big! It means a soul has grown Into the heart of Truth, and can translate The music of time’s rolling undertone. —Anna Hamilton Wood, in the Churchman.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 66
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129WALKING SOFTLY. Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 66
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