UNAFRAID

Afraid? Of What?
To feel the spirit's glad release?
To pass from pain to perfect peace,
The strife and strain of life to cease?
Afraid -- of that?

Afraid? Of What?
Afraid to see the Savior's face,
To hear His welcome, and to trace
The glory gleam from wounds of grace?
Afraid -- of that?

Afraid? Of what?
A flash - a crash - a pierced heart;
Darkness - light - O heaven's art!
A wound of His a counterpart!
Afraid -- of that?

Afraid? Of what?
To enter into Heaven's rest,
And yet to serve the Master blest,
From service good to service best?
Afraid -- of that?

Afraid? Of what?
To do by death what life could not -
Baptize with death a stony plot,
Till souls shall blossom from that spot?
Afraid -- of that?
(E H Hamilton)