《the diary of an old soul》

下载本书

添加书签

the diary of an old soul- 第7部分


按键盘上方向键 ← 或 → 可快速上下翻页,按键盘上的 Enter 键可回到本书目录页,按键盘上方向键 ↑ 可回到本页顶部!

7。

Hence come thy checksbecause I still would run
My head into the sand; nor flutter aloft
Towards thy home; with thy wind under me。
'Tis because I am mean; thy ways so oft
Look mean to me; my rise is low begun;
But scarce thy will doth grasp me; ere I see;
For my arrest and rise; its stern necessity。

8。

Like clogs upon the pinions of thy plan
We hanglike captives on thy chariot…wheels;
Who should climb up and ride with Death's conqueror;
Therefore thy train along the world's highway steals
So slow to the peace of heart…reluctant man。
What shall we do to spread the wing and soar;
Nor straiten thy deliverance any more?

9。

The sole way to put flight into the wing;
To preen its feathers; and to make them grow;
Is to heed humbly every smallest thing
With which the Christ in us has aught to do。
So will the Christ from child to manhood go;
Obedient to the father Christ; and so
Sweet holy change will turn all our old things to new。

10。

Creation thou dost work by faint degrees;
By shade and shadow from unseen beginning;
Far; far apart; in unthought mysteries
Of thy own dark; unfathomable seas;
Thou will'st thy will; and thence; upon the earth
Slow travelling; his way through centuries winning
A child at length arrives at never ending birth。

11。

Well mayst thou then work on indocile hearts
By small successes; disappointments small;
By nature; weather; failure; or sore fall;
By shame; anxiety; bitterness; and smarts;
By loneliness; by weary loss of zest:
The rags; the husks; the swine; the hunger…quest;
Drive home the wanderer to the father's breast。

12。

How suddenly some rapid turn of thought
May throw the life…machine all out of gear;
Clouding the windows with the steam of doubt;
Filling the eyes with dust; with noise the ear!
Who knows not then where dwells the engineer;
Rushes aghast into the pathless night;
And wanders in a land of dreary fright。

13。

Amazed at sightless whirring of their wheels;
Confounded with the recklessness and strife;
Distract with fears of what may next ensue;
Some break rude exit from the house of life;
And plunge into a silence out of view
Whence not a cry; no wafture once reveals
What door they have broke open with the knife。

14。

Help me; my Father; in whatever dismay;
Whatever terror in whatever shape;
To hold the faster by thy garment's hem;
When my heart sinks; oh; lift it up; I pray;
Thy child should never fear though hell should gape;
Not blench though all the ills that men affray
Stood round him like the Roman round Jerusalem。

15。

Too eager I must not be to understand。
How should the work the master goes about
Fit the vague sketch my compasses have planned?
I am his housefor him to go in and out。
He builds me nowand if I cannot see
At any time what he is doing with me;
'Tis that he makes the house for me too grand。

16。

The house is not for meit is for him。
His royal thoughts require many a stair;
Many a tower; many an outlook fair;
Of which I have no thought; and need no care。
Where I am most perplexed; it may be there
Thou mak'st a secret chamber; holy…dim;
Where thou wilt come to help my deepest prayer。

17。

I cannot tell why this day I am ill;
But I am well because it is thy will
Which is to make me pure and right like thee。
Not yet I need escape'tis bearable
Because thou knowest。 And when harder things
Shall rise and gather; and overshadow me;
I shall have comfort in thy strengthenings。

18。

How do I live when thou art far away?
When I am sunk; and lost; and dead in sleep;
Or in some dream with no sense in its play?
When weary…dull; or drowned in study deep?
O Lord; I live so utterly on thee;
I live when I forget thee utterly
Not that thou thinkest of; but thinkest me。

19。

Thou far!that word the holy truth doth blur。
Doth the great ocean from the small fish run
When it sleeps fast in its low weedy bower?
Is the sun far from any smallest flower;
That lives by his dear presence every hour?
Are they not one in oneness without stir
The flower the flower because the sun the sun?

20。

〃Dear presence every hour〃!what of the night;
When crumpled daisies shut gold sadness in;
And some do hang the head for lack of light;
Sick almost unto death with absence…blight?
Thy memory then; warm…lingering in the ground;
Mourned dewy in the air; keeps their hearts sound;
Till fresh with day their lapsed life begin。

21。

All things are shadows of the shining true:
Sun; sea; and airclose; potent; hurtless fire
Flowers from their mother's prisondove; and dew
Every thing holds a slender guiding clue
Back to the mighty oneness:hearts of faith
Know thee than light; than heat; endlessly nigher;
Our life's life; carpenter of Nazareth。

22。

Sometimes; perhaps; the spiritual blood runs slow;
And soft along the veins of will doth flow;
Seeking God's arteries from which it came。
Or does the etherial; creative flame
Turn back upon itself; and latent grow?
It matters not what figure or what name;
If thou art in me; and I am not to blame。

23。

In such God…silence; the soul's nest; so long
As all is still; no flutter and no song;
Is safe。 But if my soul begin to act
Without some waking to the eternal fact
That my dear life is hid with Christ in God
I think and move a creature of earth's clod;
Stand on the finite; act upon the wrong。

24。

My soul this sermon hence for itself prepares:
〃Then is there nothing vile thou mayst not do;
Buffeted in a tumult of low cares;
And treacheries of the old man 'gainst the new。〃
Lord; in my spirit let thy spirit move;
Warning; that it may not have to reprove:
In my dead moments; master; stir the prayers。

25。

Lord; let my soul o'erburdened then feel thee
Thrilling through all its brain's stupidity。
If I must slumber; heedless of ill harms;
Let it not be but in my Father's arms;
Outside the shelter of his garment's fold;
All is a waste; a terror…haunted wold。
Lord; keep me。 'Tis thy child that cries。 Behold。

26。

Some say that thou their endless love host won
By deeds for them which I may not believe
Thou ever didst; or ever willedst done:
What matter; so they love thee? They receive
Eternal more than the poor loom and wheel
Of their invention ever wove and spun。
I love thee for I must; thine all from head to heel。

27。

The love of thee will set all notions right。
Right save by love no thought can be or may;
Only love's knowledge is the primal light。
Questions keep camp along love's shining coast
Challenge my love and would my entrance stay:
Across the buzzing; doubting; challenging host;
I rush to thee; and cling; and cryThou know'st。

28。

Oh; let me live in thy realities;
Nor substitute my notions for thy facts;
Notion with notion making leagues and pacts;
They are to truth but as dream…deeds to acts;
And questioned; make me doubt of everything。
〃O Lord; my God;〃 my heart gets up and cries;
〃Come thy own self; and with thee my faith bring。〃

29。

O master; my desires to work; to know;
To be aware that I do live and grow
All restless wish for anything not thee;
I yield; and on thy altar offer me。
Let me no more from out thy presence go;
But keep me waiting watchful for thy will
Even while I do it; waiting watchful still。

30。

Thou art the Lord of life; the secret thing。
Thou wilt give endless more than I could find;
Even if without thee I could go and seek;
For thou art one; Christ; with my deepest mind;
Duty alive; self…willed; in me dost speak;
And to a deeper purer being sting:
I come to thee; my life; my causing kind。

31。

Nothing is alien in thy world immense
No look of sky or earth or man or beast;
〃In the great hand of God I stand; and thence〃
Look out on life; his endless; holy feast。
To try to feel is but to court despair;
To dig for a sun within a garden…fence:
Who does thy will; O God; he lives upon thy air。





AUGUST。

1。

SO shall abundant entrance me be given
Into the truth; my life's inheritance。
Lo! as the sun shoots straight from out his tomb;
God…floated; casting round a lordly glance
Into the corners of his endless room;
So; through the rent which thou; O Christ; hast riven;
I enter liberty's divine expanse。

2。

It will be soah; so it is not now!
Who seeks thee for a little lazy peace;
Then; like a man all weary of the plough;
That leaves it standing in the furrow's crease;
Turns from thy presence for a foolish while;
Till comes again the rasp of unrest's file;
》From liberty is distant many a mile。

3。

Like one that stops; and drinks; and turns; and goes
Into a land where never water flows;
There travels on; the dry and thirsty day;
Until the hot night veils the farther way;
Then turns and finds again the bubbling pool
Here would I build my house; take up my stay;
Nor ever leave my Sychar's margin cool。

4。

Keep me; Lord; with thee。 I call from out the dark
Hear in thy light; of which I am a spark。
I know not what is mine and what is thine
Of branch and stem I miss the differing mark
But if a mere hair's…breadth me separateth;
That hair's…breadth is eternal; infinite death。
For sap thy dead branch calls; O living vine!

5。

I have no choice; I must do what I can;
But thou dost me; and all things else as well;
Thou wilt take care thy child shall grow a man。
Rouse thee; my faith; be king; with life be one;
To trust in God is action's highest kind;
Who trusts in God; his heart with life doth swell;
Faith opens all the windows to God's wind。

6。

O Father; thou art my eternity。
Not on the clasp Of consciousnesson thee
My life depends; and I can well afford
All to forget; so thou remember; Lord。
In thee I rest; in sleep thou dost me fold;
In thee I labour; still in thee; grow old;
And dying; shall I not in thee; my Life; be bold?

7。

In holy things may be unholy greed。
Thou giv'st a glimpse of many a lovely thing;
Not to be stored for use in any mind;
But only for the present spiritual need。
The holiest bread; if hoarded; soon will breed
The mammon…moth; the having…pride; I find。
'Tis momently thy heart gives out heart…quickening。

8。

It is thyself; and neither this nor that;
Nor anything; told; taught; or dreamed of thee;
That keeps u
小提示:按 回车 [Enter] 键 返回书目,按 ← 键 返回上一页, 按 → 键 进入下一页。 赞一下 添加书签加入书架