"To One"

"To One"

Thou that went from us, sweet and unafraid,

      To work alone, afar,

With lifted eyes and courage undismayed—

      Led by one pure, high star;

Thou hast come back to us, still young and sweet,

      One of the world’s queens now,

With greatness robing thee; kings at thy feet;

      And laurels on thy brow.

This is the miracle by genius wrought!

      One rises rapt, sincere,

Whose soul with God’s own passion-fire is fraught,

      To speak his message clear.

"To One" printed in an unidentified publication but without the title which is later written in by Ella Higginson, clipping courtesy of the Ella Higginson Papers, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Heritage Resources, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA.