"All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
-Thomas Carlyle

by J. R. Barton

Through labyrinths of confusion I have come,
And darkness, all about, confounds my sight:
This choice, though but a trifling thing to some,
Is agony to one who longs for right.
With ordered logic I have sought to find
The virtue or the vice of either way,
Till, battered by the mazes of my mind,
I groped in darkness, crying for the day.
At other times, mistrusting mine own thought,
I said, “This way I choose, be ‘t right or no;
Now make an end.” But always I am brought
Again to doubt; it lurks where’er where I go.
Yet Thou shalt, late or soon, reveal Thy will,
And I, till then, shall pray Thee and be still.

J. R. Barton is a student at Houston Baptist University, majoring in English and Art.