Jones Very (1813–1880)

I SAW on earth another light

Than that which lit my eye

Come forth as from my soul within,

And from a higher sky.

Its beams shone still unclouded on,

When in the farthest west

The sun I once had known had sunk

Forever to his rest.

And on I walked, though dark the night,

Nor rose his orb by day;

As one who by a surer guide

Was pointed out the way.

’T was brighter far than noonday’s beam;

It shone from God within,

And lit, as by a lamp from heaven,

The world’s dark track of sin.