Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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PRAYER.
As to my Father oft do I pray un-To God, and ever does he answer me:
The Prayer is its best Answer, it is the
Fullfillment of its ownself, 'twould be none
If otherwise! and even when that one
Good which we ask at His Hands may not be
Accorded us, yet something better He
Gives for it, so godlike he gives alone!
The greatest Blessing is to hold none for
The greatest, but to labour to possess
God only, in all Things to do his Law.
Now this chief Good in his Ungrudgingness
He gives to all alike, for Eye ne'er saw
Nor Heart e'er felt the Godlike except thro'
And by Him, thus possessed by all, who do
Feel that, in his sublime Unchangeableness!
This one Good compensates us for all less-
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For in Him we have still our dear Ones, who
Relive to us by this one Blessedness!
Which thus is all in one, and the one true!
Then let us merge ourselves in God and naught
Can we be robbed of, nay, that which is ta'en
From us shall be made fairer and again
Thro' feeling Him more godlike to us brought
Back, and possessed enduring as our Thought!
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