Safety and the unknown

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In her classic poem “The Gate of the Year,” the poetess M. Louise Haskins penned the lines:

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:“Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!”

The man replied:

“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”

(In Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. James Dalton Morrison, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948, p. 92.)