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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRELUDE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the broken waters of our ever-restless thought
Last Line: God's glory be its ocean home, the end it seeketh ever.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: Amid the broken waters of our ever-restless thought
Last Line: God's glory be its ocean home, the end it seeketh ever.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
AMID the broken waters of our ever-restless thought,
Oh be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught;
That where through dark o'erarching boughs of sorrow, doubt, and sin,
The glorious Star of Bethlehem upon the flood looks in,
Its tiny trembling ray may bid some down-cast vision turn
To that enkindling Light, for which all earthly shadows yearn.
Oh be my verse a hidden stream, which silently may flow
Where drooping leaf and thirsty flower in lonely valleys grow;
And often by its shady course to pilgrim hearts be brought
The quiet and refreshment of an upward-pointing thought;
Till, blending with the broad bright stream of sanctified endeavor,
God's glory be its ocean home, the end it seeketh ever.
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