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One answered, on the day when Christ went by, "Lord, I am rich; pause not for such as I. My work, my home, my strength, my frugal store, The sun and rain—what need have I of more? Go to the sinful who have need of Thee, Go to the poor, but tarry not for me. What is there Thou should'st do for such as I?" And He went by. Long years thereafter, by a palace door, The footstep of the Master paused once more From whence the old voice answered piteously,— "Lord, I am poor, my house unfit for Thee; Nor peace nor pleasures bless my princely board, Nor love nor health; what could I give Thee, Lord? Lord, I am poor, unworthy, stained with sin,—" Yet He went in.
One answered, on the day when Christ went by, "Lord, I am rich; pause not for such as I. My work, my home, my strength, my frugal store, The sun and rain—what need have I of more? Go to the sinful who have need of Thee, Go to the poor, but tarry not for me. What is there Thou should'st do for such as I?" And He went by. Long years thereafter, by a palace door, The footstep of the Master paused once more From whence the old voice answered piteously,— "Lord, I am poor, my house unfit for Thee; Nor peace nor pleasures bless my princely board, Nor love nor health; what could I give Thee, Lord? Lord, I am poor, unworthy, stained with sin,—" Yet He went in.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Mabel Earle
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 318; printed byline: Mabel Earle; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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