Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By John Henry Newman (18011890)Deeds not Words
PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control | |
That o’er thee swell and throng; | |
They will condense within thy soul, | |
And change to purpose strong. | |
But he who lets his feelings run | 5 |
In soft luxurious flow, | |
Shrinks when hard service must be done, | |
And faints at every woe. | |
Faith’s meanest deed more favour bears, | |
Where hearts and wills are weighed, | 10 |
Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, | |
Which bloom their hour and fade. | |