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Matin Bells and Scarlet and Gold

By "F. Harald Williams"[i.e. F. W. O. Ward]. First Edition

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O immutable
And inscrutable
Awful Deity,
Thou adorable
Unexplorable
Spontaneity!
In the treasure full,
In the measure full
Of Thy latitude.
Touch my littleness,
Heal my brittleness
And ingratitude.
From Divinity's
Fair infinities,
Though by loss-bearing,
Raise my needingness
To the exceedingness
Of Thy cross-bearing.
O Thou Beautiful,
Make me dutiful—
All that ails in me;
With Thy fashioning
Wrought by passioning,
Drive Thy nails in me.