The Prisoner of Love By F. W. Orde Ward (F. Harald Wiliams) |
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REVERENCE |
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 | The Prisoner of Love |  |
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February 13 REVERENCE
“Honour all.”—1 St. Pet. ii. 17.
“Support the weak.”—1 Thess. v. 14.
Next to thy Master honour most
All helpless things, as He would do—
As if the Godhead thou would'st woo,
Kneeling at worship's solemn post;
Woman and child are Godlike too,
And bring us light like Pentecost;
For lo, behind their innocence
Lies Heaven's own dread Omnipotence.
All helpless things, as He would do—
As if the Godhead thou would'st woo,
Kneeling at worship's solemn post;
Woman and child are Godlike too,
And bring us light like Pentecost;
For lo, behind their innocence
Lies Heaven's own dread Omnipotence.
There is an angel hid in all,
Responsive to the angel touch,
Yea, in the blackest soul is such;
And child and woman, though they fall,
We cannot reverence over-much—
We dare not slight their faintest call;
The dew of their sweet mortal dress,
Their frailty, is their loveliness.
Responsive to the angel touch,
Yea, in the blackest soul is such;
And child and woman, though they fall,
We cannot reverence over-much—
We dare not slight their faintest call;
The dew of their sweet mortal dress,
Their frailty, is their loveliness.
Nay, under the unvirgin face
Unsexed by sin in every line
Till nought there longer live and shine,
Is still a higher heavenly trace;
For there is something even Divine,
Without a single human grace.
And, since the Saviour wore our flesh,
His Beauty is born in each afresh.
Unsexed by sin in every line
Till nought there longer live and shine,
Is still a higher heavenly trace;
For there is something even Divine,
Without a single human grace.
And, since the Saviour wore our flesh,
His Beauty is born in each afresh.
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