Show Me The Way.

Show me the way that leads to the true life.          I do not care what tempests may assail me,              I shall be given courage for the strife;          I know my strength will not desert or fail me;              I know that I shall conquer in the fray:          Show me the way.              Show me the way up to a higher plane,          Where body shall be servant to the soul.              I do not care what tides of woe or pain          Across my life their angry waves may roll,              If I but reach the end I seek, some day:          Show me the way.              Show me the way, and let me bravely climb          Above vain grievings for unworthy treasures;              Above all sorrow that finds balm in time;          Above small triumphs or belittling pleasures;              Up to those heights where these things seem child's-play:          Show me the way.              Show me the way to that calm, perfect peace          Which springs from an inward consciousness of right;              To where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease,          And self shall radiate with the spirit's light.              Though hard the journey and the strife, I pray,          Show me the way.