2026

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:

Give me a light

that I might tread safely into the unknown.

And he replied –

Go out into the darkness

and put your hand into the Hand of God.

That shall be to thee – better than a light

and safer than a known way.

                                                                                        

                                                                                                 M. Louise Haskins

                                                                                                                 (1875 - 1957)

Footnote:

The above Text has been a favourite of mine 

since I acquired a 'framed' copy in my teens.

Today I discovered, it is the opening lines of a bigger Poem,

that the Author died the year I was born 

and these words were also a Favourite Poem of HRH Queen Elizabeth 11.