The Way of the Cross

<p>‘I must needs go home by the way of the cross,<br> There's no other way but this;<br> I shall ne'er get sight of the gates of light,<br> If the way of the cross I miss.</p> <blockquote>The way of the cross leads home, (leads home,)<br> The way of the cross leads home; (leads home;)<br> It is sweet to know as I onward go,<br> The way of cross leads home.</blockquote> <p>‘I must needs go on in the blood sprinkled way,<br> The path that the Savior trod,<br> If I ever climb to the heights sublime,<br> Where the soul is at home with God.</p> <p>‘Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,<br> To walk in it nevermore;<br> For the Lord says, "Come," and I seek my home<br> Where He waits at the open door.’<br> <em>—Jessie Brown Pounds (1861-1921)</em></p>