Light Between the Trees + 

Long, long, long the trail + 

Through the brooding forest-gloom, + 

Down the shadowy, lonely vale + 

Into silence, like a room + 

Where the light of life has fled, + 

And the jealous curtains close + 

Round the passionless repose + 

Of the silent dead. + 

Plod, plod, plod away, + 

Step by step in mouldering moss; + 

Thick branches bar the day + 

Over languid streams that cross + 

Softly, slowly, with a sound + 

Like a smothered weeping, + 

In their aimless creeping + 

Through enchanted ground. + 

“Yield, yield, yield thy quest,” + 

Whispers through the woodland deep; + 

“Come to me and be at rest; + 

I am slumber, I am sleep.” + 

Then the weary feet would fail, + 

But the never-daunted will + 

Urges “Forward, forward still! + 

Press along the trail!” + 

Breast, breast, breast the slope + 

See, the path is growing steep. + 

Hark! a little song of hope + 

Where the stream begins to leap. + 

Though the forest, far and wide, + 

Still shuts out the bending blue, + 

We shall finally win through, + 

Cross the long divide. + 

On, on, on we tramp! + 

Will the journey never end? + 

Over yonder lies the camp; + 

Welcome waits us there, my friend. + 

Can we reach it ere the night? + 

Upward, upward, never fear! + 

Look, the summit must be near; + 

See the line of light! + 

Red, red, red the shine + 

Of the splendour in the west, + 

Glowing through the ranks of pine, + 

Clear along the mountain-crest! + 

Long, long, long the trail + 

Out of sorrow’s lonely vale; + 

But at last the traveller sees + 

Light between the trees! + 