Heaven

\What is Heaven but higher life,

Central peace in whirling strife,

Holy thought and helping deed

Serving every hungry need?

Heaven is that divine repose

Trith’s undying martyr knows,

The celestial calm that breaks

Through the cloud the war-storm makes

Heaven is here and heaven is now,

The Great Love’s unruffled brow,

The eternal more and more

That our soaring thoughts explore.

Step by step, through life and time,

To its holier steeps we climb,

And the best today may know

Some tomorrow leaves below.

Look not in the hollow blue

For the Life that springs in you,

Where its first true throb is given

Thanks for God, and there is heaven.