LORD, on this paper white,
My soul would write
Tales that were heard of old
Of perilous things and bold;
Kings as young lions for pride;
Lost cities where they died
Last in the gate; the cry
That told some Eastern throng
A prophet was gone by;
The song of swords; the song
Of beautiful, fierce lords
Gone down among the swords;
The traffick and the breath
Of nations spilled in death;
The glory and the gleam
Of a whole age
Snared in a golden page,-
Such is my dream.
Yet thanks, if yet You give
The crumbs by which I live,-
Blown shreds of beauty, broken
Words half unspoken,
So faint, so faltering,
They may not truly show
The blue on a crow’s wing,
The berry of a brier
Cupped in new snow
As though the snow lit fire, . . .
(Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall)
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