I pray for faith, I long to trust I listen with my heart, and hear A Voice without a sound 'Be just, Be true, be merciful, revere The Word within thee God is near 'A light to sky and earth unknown Pales all their lights a mightier force Than theirs the powers of Nature own, And, to its goal as at its source, His Spirit moves the Universe. 'Believe and trust. Through stars and suns, Through life and death, through soul and sense, His wise, paternal purpose runs The darkness of His providence Is star-lit with benign intents.' O joy supreme I know the Voice Like none beside on earth or sea Yea, more, O soul of mine, rejoice, By all that He requires of me, I know what God himself must be.... I fear no more. The clouded face Of Nature smiles through all her things Of time and space and sense I trace The moving of the Spirits wings, And hear the song of hope she sings.
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For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold Slaves rise up men the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves.John Greenleaf Whittier
We live by faith but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reasons voice and Gods, Natures and Dutys, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Masters footprints in our daily ways No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.
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Here Greek and Roman find themselves Alive along these crowded shelves And Shakespeare treads again his stage, And Chaucer paints anew his age.
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They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses perished And left, as its young beauty fled, An ashen memory in its stead.
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