The
world, I thought, belonged to me----
     
Goods, gold and people, land and sea---
     
Where'er I walked beneath God's sky
      
In those old days my word was "I".
 
Years
passed; there flashed my pathway near
       
The fragment of a vision dear
       
My former word no more sufficed,
        
And what I said was - " I and Christ".
 
       
But, O, the more I looked on
HIM,
        
HIS Glory grew, while mine grew dim,
        
I shrank so small, HE towered so high,
        
All I dared say - was "Christ and I".
 
         
Years more the vision held its
place
         
And looked me steadily in the face,
         
I speak now in humbler tone,
          
And what i say is -
"Christ
alone".
 
 
RG