Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)Hymn
THEE, God, I come from, to thee go, | |
All day long I like fountain flow | |
From thy hand out, swayed about | |
Mote-like in thy mighty glow. | |
What I know of thee I bless, | 5 |
As acknowledging thy stress | |
On my being, and as seeing | |
Something of thy holiness. | |
Once I turned from thee and hid, | |
Bound on what thou hadst forbid; | 10 |
Sow the wind I would; I sinned: | |
I repent of what I did. | |
Bad I am, but yet thy child. | |
Father, be thou reconciled. | |
Spare thou me, since I see | 15 |
With thy might that thou art mild. | |
I have life left with me still, | |
And thy purpose to fulfil; | |
Yes, a debt to pay thee yet: | |
Help me, sir, and so I will. | 20 |