A PRAYER
In the Name of God!
- ONLY beloved! with a heart on fire
- And all my longing set in one desire
- To make my thoughts a many-stringed lyre
- For Thy sweet hand to play,
- I bend beneath Thy mercy-seat and pray
- That in the strength of perfect love I may
- Tread with firm feet the red and mystic way
- Whereto my hopes aspire.
- I have forgotten all for love of Thee,
- And seek no other joy from destiny
- Than to be wrapped within Thy unity
- And, whatsoe’er befall,
- To hear no voice on earth but Thy clear call,
- To walk among Thy people as Thy thrall,
- And see Thy beauty breathing throughout all
- Eternal ecstasy.
- Lead me forth, Lord, amid the wide world’s ways
- To bear to Thee my witness and to raise
- The dawn-song of the breaking day of days.
- Make my whole life one flame
- Of sacrificial deeds that shall proclaim
- The new-born glory of Thy ancient name—
- And let my death lift higher yet the same
- Triumphant chant of praise.
- G. T.
