Thy Will Be Done!

The following was written by my great, great grandfather, Francis M. Lyman. This really isn't a poem, but it is eloquent and passionate enough to be considered poetic.

"They are words that should be written in letters of fire on the mind of every son and daughter of God; a motto that should be engraven on every heart, a motive that should govern every impulse, a spirit that should inspire every prayer that is wafted upon the wings of faith through the open portals of eternity.  The fiat of the Gods in the counsels of the beginning; the chorus of the stars in the glad morning of creation; the prayer of the suffering Savior at life's weary noon; the song of the saints on earth and the anthem of the angels in heaven; it yet shall be the closing hymn---the benediction over the burial of human history, the solemn epitaph inscribed upon the tombstone of Time. "Thy Will Be Done!" Like a river of power and of purity, flowing from the throne of God, making heavenly melody as it surges along the shores of life, bearing the bubbles on its breast the mightiest of human aims and achievements; it glides down the channels of the ages, glittering in the sunbeams of eternal truth and rolling the music of its bright waves into the boundless ocean of the Evermore!