Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/nowOOchri NOW Now is Here — The one and the same - Amid time ye have risen above time — Amid space ye have risen above space - Hence, time is ending space is ending Now is thine forever Life is ONE - Now Constant Now is stablished - Now is fruitful Now the Life The sweetly flowing — Now the tendernesses' deeps Now the Truth - The call The daring — Now the grand triumphal sigh Now - Here - To stay Now is present Native plain — Rapt ethereal beauty Now is clear unmoved And patient - Tending Now is humble Swift and eager to bestow Fond to heal and lift Now is cheerful Smile of heaven Now is blest and blesses Now is pure — Making so the lowly and the high Now is of The Perfect Now is utterly beneficent Bright sweet salutary mien Ending time's illusory relations — Joining in the pilgrimage divine Now is free — Untrammeled Open To the treasures of THE ONE Now is innocent Knowing not of past or future — Or of anything at all - But THE ONE - The Way of THE ONE Now is simple unaffected — But a seeing of The Way and taking it Abounding in the virtue of THE ONE Now is ardent to embrace the world - To overcome it of itself - And nil it of THE ONE Now is gentle in its claim - Yet no power can deny its unifying graces their enchantment To the hastening return of all in ONE Now is happy — As of ONE where many seem to rule yet is not ruled The many which must go by reason of that happiness Now is jubilant — What fair resources spring and flow — What liberty Now is in its glory Taking up where time was wont to wander - Ones at one in ONE