Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Poems of Optimism — My faith
(1919)
“ But faith and knowledge build at Love’s command A beauteous heaven; a heaven of thought all clarified Of hate and fear and doubt; a heaven of rarefied And perfect trust; and from the heaven I cry: ‘God reigns on high! Whatever is, is best.’ My faith refuses to accept the ‘fall’! It sees man ever as a child of God, Growing in wisdom as new realms are trod, Until the Christ in him is One with All. From this full consciousness my faith is borrowing Light to illuminate Life’s darkest sorrowing, Whatever woes assail me still I cry: ‘God reigns on high! ”
