.\:\'Y PARE:\'T TO A:'\r CHILD Like the golden portals, one by one The yea rs ha,·e opened to let the sun Of I .ife and Lo,·e, and Knowledge in, To till with radiance to God's akin Those strange, remote, dim realms whence you In ultimate solitude re\'iew The pageant of the world without. In these openings of the door of time \\'hat ha,·e you seen, dear child of mine? That prophet of the Hebrew race, Gazing clear-eyed on his master's face, Said, "Gentle love by a child portrayed, Is the conquering force 'gainst force arrayed;" That childhood's guilessness the Nazarene Gave His benison, as with voice serene I le said that of such is the Kingdom of Hea,·en. In these openings of the door of time, Ha,·e you heard aught of this, dear child of mine? Straight before thee life's road appears Through the fateful gateway of the years Ages old, of common sod, "'ith the patient wisdom born of God, Turned and sown with fruiting seed Against the time of human need. Lo\'e and Life, and Knowledge. What In the future of the doors of time \\'ill you do with these, dear child of mine? -ROBERT HAWKIKS.
1939 El Espiritu
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