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The flower the flower because the sun the sun?

20。

〃Dear presence every hour〃!what of the night;
When crumpled daisies shut gold sadness in;
And some do hang the head for lack of light;
Sick almost unto death with absence…blight?
Thy memory then; warm…lingering in the ground;
Mourned dewy in the air; keeps their hearts sound;
Till fresh with day their lapsed life begin。

21。

All things are shadows of the shining true:
Sun; sea; and airclose; potent; hurtless fire
Flowers from their mother's prisondove; and dew
Every thing holds a slender guiding clue
Back to the mighty oneness:hearts of faith
Know thee than light; than heat; endlessly nigher;
Our life's life; carpenter of Nazareth。

22。

Sometimes; perhaps; the spiritual blood runs slow;
And soft along the veins of will doth flow;
Seeking God's arteries from which it came。
Or does the etherial; creative flame
Turn back upon itself; and latent grow?
It matters not what figure or what name;
If thou art in me; and I am not to blame。

23。

In such God…silence; the soul's nest; so long
As all is still; no flutter and no song;
Is safe。 But if my soul begin to act
Without some waking to the eternal fact
That my dear life is hid with Christ in God
I think and move a creature of earth's clod;
Stand on the finite; act upon the wrong。

24。

My soul this sermon hence for itself prepares:
〃Then is there nothing vile thou mayst not do;
Buffeted in a tumult of low cares;
And treacheries of the old man 'gainst the new。〃
Lord; in my spirit let thy spirit move;
Warning; that it may not have to reprove:
In my dead moments; master; stir the prayers。

25。

Lord; let my soul o'erburdened then feel thee
Thrilling through all its brain's stupidity。
If I must slumber; heedless of ill harms;
Let it not be but in my Father's arms;
Outside the shelter of his garment's fold;
All is a waste; a terror…haunted wold。
Lord; keep me。 'Tis thy child that cries。 Behold。

26。

Some say that thou their endless love host won
By deeds for them which I may not believe
Thou ever didst; or ever willedst done:
What matter; so they love thee? They receive
Eternal more than the poor loom and wheel
Of their invention ever wove and spun。
I love thee for I must; thine all from head to heel。

27。

The love of thee will set all notions right。
Right save by love no thought can be or may;
Only love's knowledge is the primal light。
Questions keep camp along love's shining coast
Challenge my love and would my entrance stay:
Across the buzzing; doubting; challenging host;
I rush to thee; and cling; and cryThou know'st。

28。

Oh; let me live in thy realities;
Nor substitute my notions for thy facts;
Notion with notion making leagues and pacts;
They are to truth but as dream…deeds to acts;
And questioned; make me doubt of everything。
〃O Lord; my God;〃 my heart gets up and cries;
〃Come thy own self; and with thee my faith bring。〃

29。

O master; my desires to work; to know;
To be aware that I do live and grow
All restless wish for anything not thee;
I yield; and on thy altar offer me。
Let me no more from out thy presence go;
But keep me waiting watchful for thy will
Even while I do it; waiting watchful still。

30。

Thou art the Lord of life; the secret thing。
Thou wilt give endless more than I could find;
Even if without thee I could go and seek;
For thou art one; Christ; with my deepest mind;
Duty alive; self…willed; in me dost speak;
And to a deeper purer being sting:
I come to thee; my life; my causing kind。

31。

Nothing is alien in thy world immense
No look of sky or earth or man or beast;
〃In the great hand of God I stand; and thence〃
Look out on life; his endless; holy feast。
To try to feel is but to court despair;
To dig for a sun within a garden…fence:
Who does thy will; O God; he lives upon thy air。





AUGUST。

1。

SO shall abundant entrance me be given
Into the truth; my life's inheritance。
Lo! as the sun shoots straight from out his tomb;
God…floated; casting round a lordly glance
Into the corners of his endless room;
So; through the rent which thou; O Christ; hast riven;
I enter liberty's divine expanse。

2。

It will be soah; so it is not now!
Who seeks thee for a little lazy peace;
Then; like a man all weary of the plough;
That leaves it standing in the furrow's crease;
Turns from thy presence for a foolish while;
Till comes again the rasp of unrest's file;
》From liberty is distant many a mile。

3。

Like one that stops; and drinks; and turns; and goes
Into a land where never water flows;
There travels on; the dry and thirsty day;
Until the hot night veils the farther way;
Then turns and finds again the bubbling pool
Here would I build my house; take up my stay;
Nor ever leave my Sychar's margin cool。

4。

Keep me; Lord; with thee。 I call from out the dark
Hear in thy light; of which I am a spark。
I know not what is mine and what is thine
Of branch and stem I miss the differing mark
But if a mere hair's…breadth me separateth;
That hair's…breadth is eternal; infinite death。
For sap thy dead branch calls; O living vine!

5。

I have no choice; I must do what I can;
But thou dost me; and all things else as well;
Thou wilt take care thy child shall grow a man。
Rouse thee; my faith; be king; with life be one;
To trust in God is action's highest kind;
Who trusts in God; his heart with life doth swell;
Faith opens all the windows to God's wind。

6。

O Father; thou art my eternity。
Not on the clasp Of consciousnesson thee
My life depends; and I can well afford
All to forget; so thou remember; Lord。
In thee I rest; in sleep thou dost me fold;
In thee I labour; still in thee; grow old;
And dying; shall I not in thee; my Life; be bold?

7。

In holy things may be unholy greed。
Thou giv'st a glimpse of many a lovely thing;
Not to be stored for use in any mind;
But only for the present spiritual need。
The holiest bread; if hoarded; soon will breed
The mammon…moth; the having…pride; I find。
'Tis momently thy heart gives out heart…quickening。

8。

It is thyself; and neither this nor that;
Nor anything; told; taught; or dreamed of thee;
That keeps us live。 The holy maid who sat
Low at thy feet; choosing the better part;
Rising; bore with herwhat a memory!
Yet; brooding only on that treasure; she
Had soon been roused by conscious loss of heart。

9。

I am a fool when I would stop and think;
And lest I lose my thoughts; from duty shrink。
It is but avarice in another shape。
'Tis as the vine…branch were to hoard the grape;
Nor trust the living root beneath the sod。
What trouble is that child to thee; my God;
Who sips thy gracious cup; and will not drink!

10。

True; faithful action only is the life;
The grapes for which we feel the pruning knife。
Thoughts are but leaves; they fall and feed the ground。
The holy seasons; swift and slow; go round;
The ministering leaves return; fresh; large; and rife
But fresher; larger; more thoughts to the brain:
Farewell; my dove!come back; hope…laden; through the rain。

11。

Well may this body poorer; feebler grow!
It is undressing for its last sweet bed;
But why should the soul; which death shall never know;
Authority; and power; and memory shed?
It is that love with absolute faith would wed;
God takes the inmost garments off his child;
To have him in his arms; naked and undefiled。

12。

Thou art my knowledge and my memory;
No less than my real; deeper life; my love。
I will not fool; degrade myself to trust
In less than that which maketh me say Me;
In less than that causing itself to be。
Then art within me; behind; beneath; above
I will be thine because I may and must。

13。

Thou art the truth; the life。 Thou; Lord; wilt see
To every question that perplexes me。
I am thy being; and my dignity
Is written with my name down in thy book;
Thou wilt care for it。 Never shall I think
Of anything that thou mightst overlook:
In faith…born triumph at thy feet I sink。

14。

Thou carest more for that which I call mine;
In same sortbetter manner than I could;
Even if I knew creation's ends divine;
Rousing in me this vague desire of good。
Thou art more to me than my des

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