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Conscience runs quick to the spirit's hidden door:
Straightway; from every sky…ward window; cries
Up to the Father's listening ears arise。

25。

Not in my fancy now I search to find thee;
Not in its loftiest forms would shape or bind thee;
I cry to one whom I can never know;
Filling me with an infinite overflow;
Not to a shape that dwells within my heart;
Clothed in perfections love and truth assigned thee;
But to the God thou knowest that thou art。

26。

Not; Lord; because I have done well or ill;
Not that my mind looks up to thee clear…eyed;
Not that it struggles in fast cerements tied;
Not that I need thee daily sorer still;
Not that I wretched; wander from thy will;
Not now for any cause to thee I cry;
But this; that thou art thou; and here am I。

27。

Yestereve; Death came; and knocked at my thin door。
I from my window looked: the thing I saw;
The shape uncouth; I had not seen before。
I was disturbedwith fear; in sooth; not awe;
Whereof ashamed; I instantly did rouse
My will to seek theeonly to fear the more:
Alas! I could not find thee in the house。

28。

I was like Peter when he began to sink。
To thee a new prayer therefore I have got
That; when Death comes in earnest to my door;
Thou wouldst thyself go; when the latch doth clink;
And lead him to my room; up to my cot;
Then hold thy child's hand; hold and leave him not;
Till Death has done with him for evermore。

29。

Till Death has done with him?Ah; leave me then!
And Death has done with me; oh; nevermore!
He comesand goesto leave me in thy arms;
Nearer thy heart; oh; nearer than before!
To lay thy child; naked; new…born again
Of mother earth; crept free through many harms;
Upon thy bosomstill to the very core。

30。

Come to me; Lord: I will not speculate how;
Nor think at which door I would have thee appear;
Nor put off calling till my floors be swept;
But cry; 〃Come; Lord; come any way; come now。〃
Doors; windows; I throw wide; my head I bow;
And sit like some one who so long has slept
That he knows nothing till his life draw near。

31。

O Lord; I have been talking to the people;
Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zone;
And the recoil of my words' airy ripple
My heart unheedful has puffed up and blown。
Therefore I cast myself before thee prone:
Lay cool hands on my burning brain; and press
》From my weak heart the swelling emptiness。





FEBRUARY。

1。

I TO myself have neither power nor worth;
Patience nor love; nor anything right good;
My soul is a poor land; plenteous in dearth
Here blades of grass; there a small herb for food
A nothing that would be something if it could;
But if obedience; Lord; in me do grow;
I shall one day be better than I know。

2。

The worst power of an evil mood is this
It makes the bastard self seem in the right;
Self; self the end; the goal of human bliss。
But if the Christ…self in us be the might
Of saving God; why should I spend my force
With a dark thing to reason of the light
Not push it rough aside; and hold obedient course?

3。

Back still it comes to this: there was a man
Who said; 〃I am the truth; the life; the way:〃
Shall I pass on; or shall I stop and hear?
〃Come to the Father but by me none can:〃
What then is this?am I not also one
Of those who live in fatherless dismay?
I stand; I look; I listen; I draw near。

4。

My Lord; I find that nothing else will do;
But follow where thou goest; sit at thy feet;
And where I have thee not; still run to meet。
Roses are scentless; hopeless are the morns;
Rest is but weakness; laughter crackling thorns;
If thou; the Truth; do not make them the true:
Thou art my life; O Christ; and nothing else will do。

5。

Thou art herein heaven; I know; but not from here
Although thy separate self do not appear;
If I could part the light from out the day;
There I should have thee! But thou art too near:
How find thee walking; when thou art the way?
Oh; present Christ! make my eyes keen as stings;
To see thee at their heart; the glory even of things。

6。

That thou art nowhere to be found; agree
Wise men; whose eyes are but for surfaces;
Men with eyes opened by the second birth;
To whom the seen; husk of the unseen is;
Descry thee soul of everything on earth。
Who know thy ends; thy means and motions see:
Eyes made for glory soon discover thee。

7。

Thou near then; I draw nearerto thy feet;
And sitting in thy shadow; look out on the shine;
Ready at thy first word to leave my seat
Not thee: thou goest too。 From every clod
Into thy footprint flows the indwelling wine;
And in my daily bread; keen…eyed I greet
Its being's heart; the very body of God。

8。

Thou wilt interpret life to me; and men;
Art; nature; yea; my own soul's mysteries
Bringing; truth out; clear…joyous; to my ken;
Fair as the morn trampling the dull night。 Then
The lone hill…side shall hear exultant cries;
The joyous see me joy; the weeping weep;
The watching smile; as Death breathes on me his cold sleep。

9。

I search my heartI search; and find no faith。
Hidden He may be in its many folds
I see him not revealed in all the world
Duty's firm shape thins to a misty wraith。
No good seems likely。 To and fro I am hurled。
I have no stay。 Only obedience holds:
I haste; I rise; I do the thing he saith。

10。

Thou wouldst not have thy man crushed back to clay;
It must be; God; thou hast a strength to give
To him that fain would do what thou dost say;
Else how shall any soul repentant live;
Old griefs and new fears hurrying on dismay?
Let pain be what thou wilt; kind and degree;
Only in pain calm thou my heart with thee。

11。

I will not shift my ground like Moab's king;
But from this spot whereon I stand; I pray
》From this same barren rock to thee I say;
〃Lord; in my commonness; in this very thing
That haunts my soul with follythrough the clay
Of this my pitcher; see the lamp's dim flake;
And hear the blow that would the pitcher break。〃

12。

Be thou the well by which I lie and rest;
Be thou my tree of life; my garden ground;
Be thou my home; my fire; my chamber blest;
My book of wisdom; loved of all the best;
Oh; be my friend; each day still newer found;
As the eternal days and nights go round!
Nay; naythou art my God; in whom all loves are bound!

13。

Two things at once; thou know'st I cannot think。
When busy with the work thou givest me;
I cannot consciously think then of thee。
Then why; when next thou lookest o'er the brink
Of my horizon; should my spirit shrink;
Reproached and fearful; nor to greet thee run?
Can I be two when I am only one。

14。

My soul must unawares have sunk awry。
Some care; poor eagerness; ambition of work;
Some old offence that unforgiving did lurk;
Or some self…gratulation; soft and sly
Something not thy sweet will; not the good part;
While the home…guard looked out; stirred up the old murk;
And so I gloomed away from thee; my Heart。

15。

Therefore I make provision; ere I begin
To do the thing thou givest me to do;
Praying;Lord; wake me oftener; lest I sin。
Amidst my work; open thine eyes on me;
That I may wake and laugh; and know and see
Then with healed heart afresh catch up the clue;
And singing drop into my work anew。

16。

If I should slow diverge; and listless stray
Into some thought; feeling; or dream unright;
O Watcher; my backsliding soul affray;
Let me not perish of the ghastly blight。
Be thou; O Life eternal; in me light;
Then merest approach of selfish or impure
Shall start me up alive; awake; secure。

17。

Lord; I have fallen againa human clod!
Selfish I was; and heedless to offend;
Stood on my rights。 Thy own child would not send
Away his shreds of nothing for the whole God!
Wretched; to thee who savest; low I bend:
Give me the power to let my rag…rights go
In the great wind that from thy gulf doth blow。

18。

Keep me from wrath; let it seem ever so right:
My wrath will never work thy righteousness。
Up; up the hill; to the whiter than snow…shine;
Help me to climb; and dwell in pardon's light。
I must be pure as thou; or ever less
Than thy design of metherefore incline
My heart to take men's wrongs as thou tak'st mine。

19。

Lord; in thy spirit's hurric

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