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Lord Jesus Christ, I know not how— With this blue air, blue sea, This yellow sand, that grassy brow, All isolating me— Thy thoughts to mine themselves impart, My thoughts to thine draw near; But thou canst fill who mad’st my heart, Who gay’st me words must hear. Thou mad’st the hand with which I write, The eye that watches slow Through rosy gates that rosy light Across thy threshold go, Those waves that bend in golden spray, As if thy foot they bore: I think I know thee, Lord, to-day, Shall know thee evermore. I know thy father, thine and mine: Thou the great fact hast bared: Master, the mighty words are thine— Such I had never dared! Lord, thou hast much to make me yet— Thy father’s infant still: Thy mind, Son, in my bosom set, That I may grow thy will. My soul with truth clothe all about, And I shall question free: The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee.
Lord Jesus Christ, I know not how— With this blue air, blue sea, This yellow sand, that grassy brow, All isolating me— Thy thoughts to mine themselves impart, My thoughts to thine draw near; But thou canst fill who mad’st my heart, Who gay’st me words must hear. Thou mad’st the hand with which I write, The eye that watches slow Through rosy gates that rosy light Across thy threshold go, Those waves that bend in golden spray, As if thy foot they bore: I think I know thee, Lord, to-day, Shall know thee evermore. I know thy father, thine and mine: Thou the great fact hast bared: Master, the mighty words are thine— Such I had never dared! Lord, thou hast much to make me yet— Thy father’s infant still: Thy mind, Son, in my bosom set, That I may grow thy will. My soul with truth clothe all about, And I shall question free: The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- G. Macdonald (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 179 · printed citation: G. Macdonald (The Disciple). · compiler notes excluded
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