the diary of an old soul-第7章
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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 us live。 The holy maid who sat
Low at thy feet; choosing the better part;
Rising; bore with herwhat a memory!
Yet; brooding only on that treasure; she
Had soon been roused by conscious loss of heart。
9。
I am a fool when I would stop and think;
And lest I lose my thoughts; from duty shrink。
It is but avarice in another shape。
'Tis as the vine…branch were to hoard the grape;
Nor trust the living root beneath the sod。
What trouble is that child to thee; my God;
Who sips thy gracious cup; and will not drink!
10。
True; faithful action only is the life;
The grapes for which we feel the pruning knife。
Thoughts are but leaves; they fall and feed the ground。
The holy seasons; swift and slow; go round;
The ministering leaves return; fresh; large; and rife
But fresher; larger; more thoughts to the brain:
Farewell; my dove!come back; hope…laden; through the rain。
11。
Well may this body poorer; feebler grow!
It is undressing for its last sweet bed;
But why should the soul; which death shall never know;
Authority; and power; and memory shed?
It is that love with absolute faith would wed;
God takes the inmost garments off his child;
To have him in his arms; naked and undefiled。
12。
Thou art my knowledge and my memory;
No less than my real; deeper life; my love。
I will not fool; degrade myself to trust
In less than that which maketh me say Me;
In less than that causing itself to be。
Then art within me; behind; beneath; above
I will be thine because I may and must。
13。
Thou art the truth; the life。 Thou; Lord; wilt see
To every question that perplexes me。
I am thy being; and my dignity
Is written with my name down in thy book;
Thou wilt care for it。 Never shall I think
Of anything that thou mightst overlook:
In faith…born triumph at thy feet I sink。
14。
Thou carest more for that which I call mine;
In same sortbetter manner than I could;
Even if I knew creation's ends divine;
Rousing in me this vague desire of good。
Thou art more to me than my desires' whole brood;
Thou art the only person; and I cry
Unto the father I of this my I。
15。
Thou who inspirest prayer; then bend'st thine ear;
It; crying with love's grand respect to hear!
I cannot give myself to thee aright
With the triumphant uttermost of gift;
That cannot be till I am full of light
To perfect deed a perfect will must lift:
Inspire; possess; compel me; first of every might。
16。
I do not wonder men can ill believe
Who make poor claims upon thee; perfect Lord;
Then most I trust when most I would receive。
I wonder not that such do pray and grieve
The God they think; to be God is not fit。
Then only in thy glory I seem to sit;
When my heart claims from thine an infinite accord。
17。
More life I need ere I myself can be。
Sometimes; when the eternal tide ebbs low;
A moment weary of my life I grow
Weary of my existence' self; I mean;
Not of its plodding; not its wind and snow
Then to thy knee trusting I turn; and lean:
Thou will'st I live; and I do will with thee。
18。
Dost thou mean sometimes that we should forget thee;
Dropping the veil of things 'twixt thee and us?
Ah; not that we should lose thee and regret thee!
But that; we turning from our windows thus;
The frost…fixed God should vanish from the pane;
Sun…melted; and a moment; Father; let thee
Look like thyself straight into heart and brain。
19。
For sometimes when I am busy among men;
With heart and brain an open thoroughfare
For faces; words; and thoughts other than mine;
And a pause comes at lengthoh; sudden then;
Back throbs the tide with rush exultant rare;
And for a gentle moment I divine
Thy dawning presence flush my tremulous air。
20。
If I have to forget thee; do thou see
It be a good; not bad forgetfulness;
That all its mellow; truthful air be free
》From dusty noes; and soft with many a yes;
That as thy breath my life; my life may be
Man's breath。 So when thou com'st at hour unknown;
Thou shalt find nothing in me but thine own。
21。
Thou being in me; in my deepest me;
Through all the time I do not think of thee;
Shall I not grow at last so true within
As to forget thee and yet never sin?
Shall I not walk the loud world's busy way;
Yet in thy palace…porch sit all the day?
Not conscious think of thee; yet never from thee stray?
22。
Forget!Oh; must it be?Would it were rather
That every sense was so filled with my father
That not in anything could I forget him;
But deepest; highest must in all things set him!
Yet if thou think in me; God; what great matter
Though my poor thought to former break and latter
As now my best thoughts; break; before thee foiled; and scatter!
23。
Some way there must be of my not forgetting;
And thither thou art leading me; my God。
The child that; weary of his mother's petting;
Runs out the moment that his feet are shod;
May see her face in every flower he sees;
And she; although beyond the window sitting;
Be nearer him than when he sat upon her knees。
24。
What if; when I at last; at the long last;
Shall see thy face; my Lord; my life's delight;
It should not be the face that hath been glassed
In poor imagination's mirror slight!
Will my soul sink; and shall I stand aghast;
Beggared of hope; my heart a conscious blight;
Amazed and lostdeath's bitterness come and not passed?
25。
Ah; no! for from thy heart the love will press;
And shining from thy perfect human face;
Will sink into me like the father's kiss;
And deepening wide the gulf of consciousness
Beyond imagination's lowest abyss;
Will; with the potency of creative grace;
Lord it throughout the larger thinking place。
26。
Thus God…possessed; new born; ah; not for long
Should I the sight behold; beatified;
Know it creating in me; feel the throng
Of speechless hopes out…throbbing like a tide;
And my heart rushing; borne aloft the flood;
To offer at his feet its living blood
Ere; glory…hid; the other face I spied。
27。
For out imagination is; in small;
And with the making…difference that must be;
Mirror of God's creating mirror; all
That shows itself therein; that formeth he;
And there is Christ; no bodiless vanity;
Though; face to face; the mighty perfectness
With glory blurs the dim…reflected less。
28。
I clasp thy feet; O father of the living!
Thou wilt not let my fluttering hopes be more;
Or lovelier; or greater; than thy giving!
Surely thy ships will bring to my poor shore;
Of gold and peacocks such a shining store
As will laugh all the dreams to holy scorn;
Of love and sorrow that were ever born。
29。
Sometimes it seems pure natural to trust;
And trust right largely; grandly; infinitely;
Daring the splendour of the giver's part;
At other times; the whole earth is but dust;
The sky is dust; yea; dust the human heart;
Then art thou nowhere; there is no room for thee
In the great dust…heap of eternity。
30。
But why should it be possible to mistrust
Nor possible only; but its opposite hard?
Why should not man believe because he must
By sight's compulsion? Why should he be scarred
With conflict? worn with doubting fine and long?