If I each day do every task I find
Along the way to do, and if I keep my mind
My own and God’s;
If too, my heart be tuned to humankind,
I have a pact with God, Who says the trust will bind,
Whate’er the odds.
But, should I shun my bounden duty here
And let environment with my conscience interfere,
Which eaase to guide,
And if my heart be aught except sincere,
And true to man, and his Creator–death is near,
At least inside.
We ignore the sin that chokes from life its breath:
Yet fear and dread and fight a mortal death!
by Ray Romine Sunday, July 25, 1943
