Contents
-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)
The Celestial Surgeon
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IF 1 I have faltered more or less | |
In my great task of happiness; | |
If I have moved among my race | |
And shown no glorious morning face; | |
If beams from happy human eyes | 5 |
Have moved me not; if morning skies, | |
Books, and my food, and summer rain | |
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: | |
Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take | |
And stab my spirit broad awake; | 10 |
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, | |
Choose Thou, before that spirit die, | |
A piercing pain, a killing sin, | |
And to my dead heart run them in! | |