Poems (Cary)/Devotion
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DEVOTION.
Within a silver wave of cloud
The yellow sunset light was staid,
As on the daisied turf she bowed:
I saw and loved her as she prayed—
Thy holy will on earth be done,
As in the heavens, all-hallowed One!
The yellow sunset light was staid,
As on the daisied turf she bowed:
I saw and loved her as she prayed—
Thy holy will on earth be done,
As in the heavens, all-hallowed One!
No evil word her lip had learned;
Her heart with love was overfull;
No scarlet sinfulness had turned
Her garment from the look of wool
Give us, oh Lord, our daily bread;
Keep us and guide us home, she said.
Her heart with love was overfull;
No scarlet sinfulness had turned
Her garment from the look of wool
Give us, oh Lord, our daily bread;
Keep us and guide us home, she said.
No violet, with head so low,
Were sweetly meek as she in prayer;
Nor rising from the April snow
A daffodilly, half so fair,
As her uprising from the sod,
Fresh from communion with her God.
Were sweetly meek as she in prayer;
Nor rising from the April snow
A daffodilly, half so fair,
As her uprising from the sod,
Fresh from communion with her God.