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O friends! with whom my feet have trod
The quiet aisles of prayer
Glad witness to your zeal for God
And love of man I bear
I trace your lines of argument;
Your logic linked and strong
I weigh as one who dreads dissent
And fears a doubt as wrong
But still my human hands are weak
To hold your iron creeds:
Against the words ye bid me speak
My heart within me pleads
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought?
Who talks of scheme and plan?
The Lord is God! He needeth not
The poor device of man
I walk with bare, hushed feet the ground
Ye tread with boldness shod;
I dare not fix with mete and bound
The love and power of God
Ye praise His justice; even such
His pitying love I deem:
Ye seek a king; I fain would touch
The robe that hath no seam
Ye see the curse which overbroods
A world of pain and loss;
I hear our Lord's beatitudes
And prayer upon the cross
More than your schoolmen teach, within
Myself, alas! I know:
Too dark ye cannot paint the sin
Too small the merit show
I bow my forehead to the dust
I veil mine eyes for shame
And urge, in trembling self-distrust
A prayer without a claim
I see the wrong that round me lies
I feel the guilt within;
I hear, with groan and travail-cries
The world confess its sin
Yet, in the maddening maze of things
And tossed by storm and flood
To one fixed trust my spirit clings;
I know that God is good!
Not mine to look where cherubim
And seraphs may not see
But nothing can be good in Him
Which evil is in me
The wrong that pains my soul below
I dare not throne above
I know not of His hate, -- I know
His goodness and His love
I dimly guess from blessings known
Of greater out of sight
And, with the chastened Psalmist, own
His judgments too are right
I long for household voices gone
For vanished smiles I long
But God hath led my dear ones on
And He can do no wrong
I know not what the future hath
Of marvel or surprise
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies
And if my heart and flesh are weak
To bear an untried pain
The bruisëd reed He will not break
But strengthen and sustain
No offering of my own I have
Nor works my faith to prove;
I can but give the gifts He gave
And plead His love for love
And so beside the Silent Sea
I wait the muffled oar;
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore
I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care
O brothers! if my faith is vain
If hopes like these betray
Pray for me that my feet may gain
The sure and safer way
And Thou, O Lord! by whom are seen
Thy creatures as they be
Forgive me if too close I lean
My human heart on Thee!
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Ernst Bacon

Ernst Bacon

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