The Sanctuary A Companion in Verse for the English Prayer Book. By Robert Montgomery |
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The Lord's Prayer.
“The Minister shall kneel and say the Lord's Prayer with an
audible voice; the people also kneeling, and repeating it
with him.”
—Rubric.
As roll the rivers to the sea,
So, human prayers subside in Thee,
Devotion's archetype for all
Who God in Christ their “Father” call!
And, e'en as Worlds a radiance draw
From one great Orb, which is their law,
So, in this model-prayer can Mind
A fountain-source of worship find,—
A light suggestive, which may give
An inward heaven to all who live.
So, human prayers subside in Thee,
Devotion's archetype for all
Who God in Christ their “Father” call!
And, e'en as Worlds a radiance draw
From one great Orb, which is their law,
So, in this model-prayer can Mind
A fountain-source of worship find,—
A light suggestive, which may give
An inward heaven to all who live.
Ideal Type of truth and love!
Thy words are wings to waft above
The soaring Hearts, which nobly thrill
To crucify the flesh-born Will,
And would like sinless Angels be
Whose lauds resound eternally,
And yet, when most their glories shine
They view them in the Will Divine,
By doing which their own is done,—
Like portions of the Primal One.
Thy words are wings to waft above
The soaring Hearts, which nobly thrill
To crucify the flesh-born Will,
And would like sinless Angels be
Whose lauds resound eternally,
And yet, when most their glories shine
They view them in the Will Divine,
By doing which their own is done,—
Like portions of the Primal One.
Creation's Lord! from Thee it came;
And, offer'd in Thy pleading Name,
What is it, but the Filial Word
Before the Father-God preferr'd?—
A myst'ry of sublime appeal
More fathomless than man can feel,
Since, like Thy Person, in Thy Prayer
Both God and Man their truth declare;
And ev'ry tone therein that dwells
Some grace of Incarnation tells.
And, offer'd in Thy pleading Name,
What is it, but the Filial Word
Before the Father-God preferr'd?—
A myst'ry of sublime appeal
More fathomless than man can feel,
Since, like Thy Person, in Thy Prayer
Both God and Man their truth declare;
And ev'ry tone therein that dwells
Some grace of Incarnation tells.
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Here, each for all, and all for each
By perfect words their God can reach;
For He, who knew the Church's life
Of sin and woe, of fear and strife,
Hath here epitomised for man
The vastness of that saving Plan,
By which the children of His grace
On earth may see Jehovah's Face;
And, by such blest compendium prove
The token-smiles of tend'rest love!
By perfect words their God can reach;
For He, who knew the Church's life
Of sin and woe, of fear and strife,
Hath here epitomised for man
The vastness of that saving Plan,
By which the children of His grace
On earth may see Jehovah's Face;
And, by such blest compendium prove
The token-smiles of tend'rest love!
Boundless, though brief, while calm, sublime:
Condition, space, and scene and time,—
All which Convention's law can bind
Around the heart, or on the mind,
Dies and dissolves in this blest Prayer!
Whose words are echoes ev'rywhere
Of want and weakness, faith and fears
Breath'd into sighs, or spoke by tears,—
Of all men need, or God can give
To souls who on His promise live.
Condition, space, and scene and time,—
All which Convention's law can bind
Around the heart, or on the mind,
Dies and dissolves in this blest Prayer!
Whose words are echoes ev'rywhere
Of want and weakness, faith and fears
Breath'd into sighs, or spoke by tears,—
Of all men need, or God can give
To souls who on His promise live.
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