Monday, February 16, 2009

When on my day of life the night is falling,

And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown,

I hear far voices out of darkness calling

My feet to paths unknown.

 

Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant

Leave not its tenant when its walls decay;

O Love Divine, O Helper ever present,

Be Thou my strength and stay!

 

Be near me when all else is from me drifting;

Earth, sky, home’s pictures, days of shade and shine,

And kindly faces to my own uplifting

The love that answers mine.

 

I have but Thee, my Father! let Thy spirit

Be with me then to comfort and uphold;

No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit,

Nor street of shining gold.

 

Suffice it if—my good and ill unreckoned,

And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace—

I find myself by hands familiar beckoned

Unto my fitting place.

... John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, p. 463 (see the book; see also Rom. 6:14; Ps. 25:11; 140:1-4; Isa. 1:18; Rom. 8:1-2; Jas. 4:8; more at Darkness, Father, Forgiveness, Grace, Home, Kindness, Life, Love)

 
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