Christ to the young man said: 'Yet one thing more; <br />If thou wouldst perfect be, <br />Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor, <br />And come and follow me!' <br /> <br />Within this temple Christ again, unseen, <br />Those sacred words hath said, <br />And his invisible hands to-day have been <br />Laid on a young man's head. <br /> <br />And evermore beside him on his way <br />The unseen Christ shall move, <br />That he may lean upon his arm and say, <br />'Dost thou, dear Lord, approve?' <br /> <br />Beside him at the marriage feast shall be, <br />To make the scene more fair; <br />Beside him in the dark Gethsemane <br />Of pain and midnight prayer. <br /> <br />O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! <br />Like the beloved John <br />To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, <br />And thus to journey on!<br /><br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-for-my-brother-s-ordination/