 | The poems of Mrs. Emma Catherine Embury |  |
DEVOTION.
Mine eyes are pained with watching, for the browOf heaven has lost its crown of starry light,
And soon upon my dim and dazzled sight
The gladdening morn will come with all its glow
Of new-born loveliness; then let me bow
The knee to Heaven, and lift my heart in prayer,
Ere earth with all its vain and troublous care
Comes back upon my spirit, ere the flow
Of holy thought be stayed: yet 'tis for thee
That I would pray, beloved one, for thy lot
I dare to question God's untold decree,
And ask the bliss my own heart knoweth not;
Be thy path marked with light! enough for me
If in thy glory's hour I be not quite forgot.
| The poems of Mrs. Emma Catherine Embury | |