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THE BRIDGE BUILDER

by Bro William Charles Beller

Pontifices the Romans named
  Their priests: Bridge Builders; for they wrought
A bridge 'twixt Gods and Mortals, framed
  Of rite and legend, deed and thought.
Bridge Builder in a later year
  Am I, who, seeking still the true,
With woven words essay to rear
  A bridge between the old and new.
Far off, across the stream of time,
  The light of ancient Hellas gleams;
And latter ages, less sublime,
  Are guided by those distant beams.
Between, as black as midnight sea,
  Ages of darkness roll their tides.
By that dim waste the light may be
  Obscured, but still the light abides.
The light that shone in ancient Greece
  Shall in our times once more arise,
And match the younger years' increase
  With vaster worlds in vaster skies.
I do but strive, in night and storm,
  To stretch a slender span aright.
Let those a firmer fabric form
  Who labour in the morning light!
For still the wildered wanderer needs
  To reach the light that shines afar,
Where, through the storm of warring creeds,
  Truth gleameth as a guiding star.

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