But rather for the Love Feast of that day, He hungered Who the hungry thousands fed, The exceeding prize which whoso And thirsted Who the world's re He had no place wherein to lay DARKNESS and light are both alike The cup I drink He drank of long Upward I look with eyes that fail to God is our Hope and Strength. TEMPEST and terror below; but Christ the Almighty above. Tho' the depth of the deep overflow, tho' fire run along on the ground, Tho' all billows and flames make a noise, and where is an Ark for the dove?— Tho' sorrows rejoice against joys, and death and destruction abound: Yet Jesus abolisheth death, and Jesus Who loves us we love; His dead are renewed with a breath, His lost are the sought and the found. Thy wanderers call and recall, Thy dead men lift out of the ground; O Jesus, Who lovest us all, stoop low from Thy Glory above: Where sin hath abounded make grace to abound and to superabound, Till we gaze on Thee face unto Face, and respond to Thee love unto Love. Before 1893. DAY and night the Accuser makes LORD, dost Thou look on me, and Man the culprit, man's the ruined And often think on him and often Man midway to death's devouring And by a tender friendship make A trusted teacher, a long-worked- THY fainting spouse, yet still Thy for end: But what to me were Peter or were spouse; Thy trembling dove, yet still Thy dove; Without Thee? fame or friend if Thine own by mutual vows, Paul such might be? By mutual love. Recall Thy vows, if not her vows ; Before 1893. Like as the hart desireth the water brooks. My heart is yearning: Turn, as once turning Thou didst behold Thy Saint Didst look, and win back to His will frighted and faint. Kindle my burning From Thine unkindled Fire; That I may behold Thy Face, My heart is yearning, Yearning and thrilling thro' For Thy Love mine own of old, For Thy Love unknown, untold, Ever old, ever new. Before 1893. That where I am, there ye may be also. Some of this, not all, I know; but this is so; Christ is there. How know I that blessedness befalls who dwell in Paradise, The outwearied hearts refreshing, rekindling the worn-out eyes, All souls singing, seeing, rejoicing everywhere? Nay, much more than this I O Lord Christ, Whom having not seen I love and desire to love, O Lord Christ, Who lookest on me uncomely yet still Thy dove, Take me to Thee in Paradise, Thine own made fair; For whatever else I know, this thing is so; Thou art there. Before 1893. Judge not according to the appearance. LORD, purge our eyes to see Within the seed a tree, Within the glowing egg a bird, Within the shroud a butterfly : Till taught by such, we see Beyond all creatures Thee, And hearken for Thy tender word, And hear it, 'Fear not it is I.' Before 1893. How know I that it looms lovely My God, wilt Thou accept, and will that land I have never seen, With morning-glories and heartsease and unexampled green, With neither heat nor cold in the balm-redolent air? not we Give aught to Thee? The kept we lose, the offered we retain Or find again. |