the diary of an old soul-第8章
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Scarce know the love that loveth at first hand:
Help me my selfishness to scatter and scout;
Blow on me till my love loves burningly;
Then the great love will burn the mean self out;
And I; in glorious simplicity;
Living by love; shall love unspeakably。
25。
Oh; make my anger purelet no worst wrong
Rouse in me the old niggard selfishness。
Give me thine indignationwhich is love
Turned on the evil that would part love's throng;
Thy anger scathes because it needs must bless;
Gathering into union calm and strong
All things on earth; and under; and above。
26。
Make my forgiveness downrightsuch as I
Should perish if I did not have from thee;
I let the wrong go; withered up and dry;
Cursed with divine forgetfulness in me。
'Tis but self…pity; pleasant; mean; and sly;
Low whispering bids the paltry memory live:
What am I brother for; but to forgive!
27。
〃Thou art my father's childcome to my heart:〃
Thus must I say; or Thou must say; 〃Depart;〃
Thus I would sayI would be as thou art;
Thus I must say; or still I work athwart
The absolute necessity and law
That dwells in me; and will me asunder draw;
If in obedience I leave any flaw。
28。
Lord; I forgiveand step in unto thee。
If I have enemies; Christ deal with them:
He hath forgiven me and Jerusalem。
Lord; set me from self…inspiration free;
And let me live and think from thee; not me
Rather; from deepest me then think and feel;
At centre of thought's swift…revolving wheel。
29。
I sit o'ercanopied with Beauty's tent;
Through which flies many a golden…winged dove;
Well watched of Fancy's tender eyes up bent;
A hundred Powers wait on me; ministering;
A thousand treasures Art and Knowledge bring;
Will; Conscience; Reason tower the rest above;
But in the midst; alone; I gladness am and love。
30。
'Tis but a vision; Lord; I do not mean
That thus I am; or have one moment been
'Tis but a picture hung upon my wall;
To measure dull contentment therewithal;
And know behind the human how I fall;
A vision true; of what one day shall be;
When thou hast had thy very will with me。
JULY。
1。
ALAS; my tent! see through it a whirlwind sweep!
Moaning; poor Fancy's doves are swept away。
I sit alone; a sorrow half asleep;
My consciousness the blackness all astir。
No pilgrim I; a homeless wanderer
For how canst Thou be in the darkness deep;
Who dwellest only in the living day?
2。
It must be; somewhere in my fluttering tent;
Strange creatures; half tamed only yet; are pent
Dragons; lop…winged birds; and large…eyed snakes!
Hark! through the storm the saddest howling breaks!
Or are they loose; roaming about the bent;
The darkness dire deepening with moan and scream?
My Morning; rise; and all shall be a dream。
3。
Not thine; my Lord; the darkness all is mine
Save that; as mine; my darkness too is thine:
All things are thine to save or to destroy
Destroy my darkness; rise my perfect joy;
Love primal; the live coal of every night;
Flame out; scare the ill things with radiant fright;
And fill my tent with laughing morn's delight。
4。
Master; thou workest with such common things
Low souls; weak hearts; I meanand hast to use;
Therefore; such common means and rescuings;
That hard we find it; as we sit and muse;
To think thou workest in us verily:
Bad sea…boats we; and manned with wretched crews
That doubt the captain; watch the storm…spray flee。
5。
Thou art hampered in thy natural working then
When beings designed on freedom's holy plan
Will not be free: with thy poor; foolish men;
Thou therefore hast to work just like a man。
But when; tangling thyself in their sore need;
Thou hast to freedom fashioned them indeed;
Then wilt thou grandly move; and Godlike speed。
6。
Will this not then show grandest fact of all
In thy creation victory most renowned
That thou hast wrought thy will by slow and small;
And made men like thee; though thy making bound
By that which they were not; and could not be
Until thou mad'st them make along with thee?
Master; the tardiness is but in me。
7。
Hence come thy checksbecause I still would run
My head into the sand; nor flutter aloft
Towards thy home; with thy wind under me。
'Tis because I am mean; thy ways so oft
Look mean to me; my rise is low begun;
But scarce thy will doth grasp me; ere I see;
For my arrest and rise; its stern necessity。
8。
Like clogs upon the pinions of thy plan
We hanglike captives on thy chariot…wheels;
Who should climb up and ride with Death's conqueror;
Therefore thy train along the world's highway steals
So slow to the peace of heart…reluctant man。
What shall we do to spread the wing and soar;
Nor straiten thy deliverance any more?
9。
The sole way to put flight into the wing;
To preen its feathers; and to make them grow;
Is to heed humbly every smallest thing
With which the Christ in us has aught to do。
So will the Christ from child to manhood go;
Obedient to the father Christ; and so
Sweet holy change will turn all our old things to new。
10。
Creation thou dost work by faint degrees;
By shade and shadow from unseen beginning;
Far; far apart; in unthought mysteries
Of thy own dark; unfathomable seas;
Thou will'st thy will; and thence; upon the earth
Slow travelling; his way through centuries winning
A child at length arrives at never ending birth。
11。
Well mayst thou then work on indocile hearts
By small successes; disappointments small;
By nature; weather; failure; or sore fall;
By shame; anxiety; bitterness; and smarts;
By loneliness; by weary loss of zest:
The rags; the husks; the swine; the hunger…quest;
Drive home the wanderer to the father's breast。
12。
How suddenly some rapid turn of thought
May throw the life…machine all out of gear;
Clouding the windows with the steam of doubt;
Filling the eyes with dust; with noise the ear!
Who knows not then where dwells the engineer;
Rushes aghast into the pathless night;
And wanders in a land of dreary fright。
13。
Amazed at sightless whirring of their wheels;
Confounded with the recklessness and strife;
Distract with fears of what may next ensue;
Some break rude exit from the house of life;
And plunge into a silence out of view
Whence not a cry; no wafture once reveals
What door they have broke open with the knife。
14。
Help me; my Father; in whatever dismay;
Whatever terror in whatever shape;
To hold the faster by thy garment's hem;
When my heart sinks; oh; lift it up; I pray;
Thy child should never fear though hell should gape;
Not blench though all the ills that men affray
Stood round him like the Roman round Jerusalem。
15。
Too eager I must not be to understand。
How should the work the master goes about
Fit the vague sketch my compasses have planned?
I am his housefor him to go in and out。
He builds me nowand if I cannot see
At any time what he is doing with me;
'Tis that he makes the house for me too grand。
16。
The house is not for meit is for him。
His royal thoughts require many a stair;
Many a tower; many an outlook fair;
Of which I have no thought; and need no care。
Where I am most perplexed; it may be there
Thou mak'st a secret chamber; holy…dim;
Where thou wilt come to help my deepest prayer。
17。
I cannot tell why this day I am ill;
But I am well because it is thy will
Which is to make me pure and right like thee。
Not yet I need escape'tis bearable
Because thou knowest。 And when harder things
Shall rise and gather; and overshadow me;
I shall have comfort in thy strengthenings。
18。
How do I live when thou art far away?
When I am sunk; and lost; and dead in sleep;
Or in some dream with no sense in its play?
When weary…dull; or drowned in study deep?
O Lord; I live so utterly on thee;
I live when I forget thee utterly
Not that thou thinkest of; but thinkest me。
19。
Thou far!that word the holy truth doth blur。
Doth the great ocean from the small fish run
When it sleeps fast in its low weedy bower?
Is the sun far from any smallest flower;
That lives by his dear presence every hour?
Are they not one in oneness without stir
The flower the flower because the sun the sun?
20。
〃Dear presence every hour〃!what of the night;
When