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Which never longs to have; but still to give。
A self I must have; or not be at all:
Love; give me a self self…givingor let me fall
To endless darkness back; and free me from life's thrall。

16。

〃Back;〃 said I! Whither back? How to the dark?
》From no dark came I; but the depths of light;
》From the sun…heart I came; of love a spark:
What should I do but love with all my might?
To die of love severe and pure and stark;
Were scarcely loss; to lord a loveless height
That were a living death; damnation's positive night。

17。

But love is life。 To die of love is then
The only pass to higher life than this。
All love is death to loving; living men;
All deaths are leaps across clefts to the abyss。
Our life is the broken current; Lord; of thine;
Flashing from morn to morn with conscious shine
Then first by willing death self…made; then life divine。

18。

I love you; my sweet children; who are gone
Into another mansion; but I know
I love you not as I shall love you yet。
I love you; sweet dead children; there are none
In the land to which ye vanished to go;
Whose hearts more truly on your hearts are set
Yet should I die of grief to love you only so。

19。

〃I am but as a beast before thee; Lord。〃
Great poet…king; I thank thee for the word。
Leave not thy son half…made in beastly guise
Less than a man; with more than human cries
An unshaped thing in which thyself cries out!
Finish me; Father; now I am but a doubt;
Oh! make thy moaning thing for joy to leap and shout。

20。

Let my soul talk to thee in ordered words;
O king of kings; O lord of only lords!
When I am thinking thee within my heart;
》From the broken reflex be not far apart。
The troubled water; dim with upstirred soil;
Makes not the image which it yet can spoil:
Come nearer; Lord; and smooth the wrinkled coil。

21。

O Lord; when I do think of my departed;
I think of thee who art the death of parting;
Of him who crying Father breathed his last;
Then radiant from the sepulchre upstarted。
Even then; I think; thy hands and feet kept smarting:
With us the bitterness of death is past;
But by the feet he still doth hold us fast。

22。

Therefore our hands thy feet do hold as fast。
We pray not to be spared the sorest pang;
But onlybe thou with us to the last。
Let not our heart be troubled at the clang
Of hammer and nails; nor dread the spear's keen fang;
Nor the ghast sickening that comes of pain;
Nor yet the last clutch of the banished brain。

23。

Lord; pity us: we have no making power;
Then give us making will; adopting thine。
Make; make; and make us; temper; and refine。
Be in us patienceneither to start nor cower。
Christ; if thou be not with usnot by sign;
But presence; actual as the wounds that bleed
We shall not bear it; but shall die indeed。

24。

O Christ; have pity on all men when they come
Unto the border haunted of dismay;
When that they know not draweth very near
The other thing; the opposite of day;
Formless and ghastly; sick; and gaping…dumb;
Before which even love doth lose his cheer:
O radiant Christ; remember then thy fear。

25。

Be by me; Lord; this day。 Thou know'st I mean
Lord; make me mind thee。 I herewith forestall
My own forgetfulness; when I stoop to glean
The corn of earthwhich yet thy hand lets fall。
Be for me then against myself。 Oh lean
Over me then when I invert my cup;
Take me; if by the hair; and lift me up。

26。

Lord of essential life; help me to die。
To will to die is one with highest life;
The mightiest act that to Will's hand doth lie
Born of God's essence; and of man's hard strife:
God; give me strength my evil self to kill;
And die into the heaven of thy pure will。
Then shall this body's death be very tolerable。

27。

As to our mothers came help in our birth
Not lost in lifing us; but saved and blest
Self bearing self; although right sorely prest;
Shall nothing lose; but die and be at rest
In life eternal; beyond all care and dearth。
God…born then truly; a man does no more ill;
Perfectly loves; and has whate'er he will。

28。

As our dear animals do suffer less
Because their pain spreads neither right nor left;
Lost in oblivion and foresightlessness
Our suffering sore by faith shall be bereft
Of all dismay; and every weak excess。
His presence shall be better in our pain;
Than even self…absence to the weaker brain。

29。

〃Father; let this cup pass。〃 He prayedwas heard。
What cup was it that passed away from him?
Sure not the death…cup; now filled to the brim!
There was no quailing in the awful word;
He still was king of kings; of lords the lord:
He feared lest; in the suffering waste and grim;
His faith might grow too faint and sickly dim。

30。

Thy mind; my master; I will dare explore;
What we are told; that we are meant to know。
Into thy soul I search yet more and more;
Led by the lamp of my desire and woe。
If thee; my Lord; I may not understand;
I am a wanderer in a houseless land;
A weeping thirst by hot winds ever fanned。

31。

Therefore I look againand think I see
That; when at last he did cry out; 〃My God;
Why hast thou me forsaken?〃 straight man's rod
Was turned aside; for; that same moment; he
Cried 〃Father!〃 and gave up will and breath and spirit
Into his hands whose all he did inherit
Delivered; glorified eternally。





APRIL。

1。

LORD; I do choose the higher than my will。
I would be handled by thy nursing arms
After thy will; not my infant alarms。
Hurt me thou wiltbut then more loving still;
If more can be and less; in love's perfect zone!
My fancy shrinks from least of all thy harms;
But do thy will with meI am thine own。

2。

Some things wilt thou not one day turn to dreams?
Some dreams wilt thou not one day turn to fact?
The thing that painful; more than should be; seems;
Shall not thy sliding years with them retract
Shall fair realities not counteract?
The thing that was well dreamed of bliss and joy
Wilt thou not breathe thy life into the toy?

3。

I have had dreams of absolute delight;
Beyond all waking blissonly of grass;
Flowers; wind; a peak; a limb of marble white;
They dwell with me like things half come to pass;
True prophecies:when I with thee am right;
If I pray; waking; for such a joy of sight;
Thou with the gold; wilt not refuse the brass。

4。

I think I shall not ever pray for such;
Thy bliss will overflood my heart and brain;
And I want no unripe things back again。
Love ever fresher; lovelier than of old
How should it want its more exchanged for much?
Love will not backward sigh; but forward strain;
On in the tale still telling; never told。

5。

What has been; shall not only be; but is。
The hues of dreamland; strange and sweet and tender
Are but hint…shadows of full many a splendour
Which the high Parent…love will yet unroll
Before his child's obedient; humble soul。
Ah; me; my God! in thee lies every bliss
Whose shadow men go hunting wearily amiss。

6。

Now; ere I sleep; I wonder what I shall dream。
Some sense of being; utter new; may come
Into my soul while I am blind and dumb
With shapes and airs and scents which dark hours teem;
Of other sort than those that haunt the day;
Hinting at precious things; ages away
In the long tale of us God to himself doth say。

7。

Late; in a dream; an unknown lady I saw
Stand on a tomb; down she to me stepped thence。
〃They tell me;〃 quoth I; 〃thou art one of the dead!〃
And scarce believed for gladness the yea she said;
A strange auroral bliss; an arctic awe;
A new; outworldish joy awoke intense;
To think I talked with one that verily was dead。

8。

Thou dost demand our love; holy Lord Christ;
And batest nothing of thy modesty;
Thou know'st no other way to bliss the highest
Than loving thee; the loving; perfectly。
Thou lovest perfectlythat is thy bliss:
We must love like thee; or our being miss
So; to love perfectly; love perfect Love; love thee。

9。

Here is my heart; O Christ; thou know'st I love thee。
But wretched is the thing I call my love。
O Love divine; rise up in me and move me
I follow surely when thou first dost move。
To love the perfect love; is primal; mere
Necessity; and he who holds life dear;
Must love thee every hope and heart ab

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