How can I sum up intervening years:
The days like water flow away with time
And mix the mem'ries with our joys and tears,
As we to that Celestial City climb.
On that great Day our faith will be made sight
So look on life and trials and ne'er be shaken;
The way be rough but bright—walk in His light—
His promise sure: we'll never be forsaken.
True Love advances with determined zeal
To press toward Heav'n and strengthen one another,
To rouse and spur and then in prayer to kneel
And look to Christ our Lord for help and cover.
'Tis not of earth—it comes down from Above,
Where Christ has shown us meaning of true Love.
- D. Benning
Based on a Shakespearean Sonnet.
Yes, two of the rhymes are a feminine rhyme, making the line 11 syllables long. That's okay. Shakespeare did it himself. See his Sonnet 116.
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