With Noiseless Steps Good Goes Its Way
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
With noiseless
steps good goes its way;
The earth
shakes under evil’s tread.
We hear the
uproar, and ’tis said,
The world grows wicked every day.
It is not true. With quiet feet,
In silence,
Virtue sows her seeds;
While Sin
goes shouting out his deeds,
And echoes listen and repeat.
But surely as the old world moves,
And circles
round the shining sun,
So surely
does God’s purpose [1] run,
And all the human race improves.
Despite bold evil’s noise and stir,
Truth’s
golden harvests ripen fast;
The Present
far outshines the Past;
Men’s thoughts are higher than they were.
Who runs may read this truth, I say:
Sin travels
in a rumbling car,
While Virtue
soars on like a star -
The world grows better every day.
NOTE:
[1] In esoteric philosophy, the word “God” means the
universal and sacred Law, impersonally present in everyone’s heart. (CCA)
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Reproduced from
the book “Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler
Wilcox”, W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, Edinburgh, undated, probably
1917, 527 pages, pp. 112-113.
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writings by Ella Wheeler Wilcox in our associated websites, click here.
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On 14 September 2016, a group of students
decided to found the Independent Lodge
of Theosophists. Two of the priorities adopted by the ILT are learning from the past and building a better
future.
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