* i cannot * by Swt.Raaz 2014/02/05 14:52
I cannot ope mine eyes,
But thou art ready there
to catch
My morning-soul and
sacrifice:
Then we must needs for
that day make a match.
My God, what is a heart?
Silver, or gold, or precious
stone,
Or star, or rainbow, or a
part
Of all these things or all of
them in one?
My God, what is a heart?
That thou should'st it so
eye, and woo,
Pouring upon it all thy
art,
As if that thou hadst
nothing else to do?
Indeed man's whole
estate
Amounts (and richly) to
serve thee:
He did not heav'n and
earth create,
Yet studies them, not him
by whom they be.
Teach me thy love to
know;
That this new light, which
now I see,
May both the work and
workman show:
Then by a sun-beam I will
climb to thee.
I cannot ope mine eyes,
But thou art ready there
to catch
My morning-soul and
sacrifice:
Then we must needs for
that day make a match.
My God, what is a heart?
Silver, or gold, or precious
stone,
Or star, or rainbow, or a
part
Of all these things or all of
them in one?
My God, what is a heart?
That thou should'st it so
eye, and woo,
Pouring upon it all thy
art,
As if that thou hadst
nothing else to do?
Indeed man's whole
estate
Amounts (and richly) to
serve thee:
He did not heav'n and
earth create,
Yet studies them, not him
by whom they be.
Teach me thy love to
know;
That this new light, which
now I see,
May both the work and
workman show:
Then by a sun-beam I will
climb to thee.
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