Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Robert Bridges (18441930)These meagre rhymes which a returning mood
THESE meagre rhymes which a returning mood | |
Sometimes o’errateth, I as oft despise: | |
And knowing them ill-natured, stiff, and rude, | |
See them as others with contemptuous eyes. | |
Nay, and I wonder less at God’s respect | 5 |
For man, a minim jot in time and space, | |
Than at the soaring faith of His elect, | |
That gift of gifts, the comfort of His grace. | |
O truth unsearchable, O heavenly love, | |
Most infinitely tender, so to touch | 10 |
The work that we can meanly reckon of: | |
Surely—I say—we are favoured overmuch. | |
But of this wonder, what doth most amaze | |
Is that we know our love is held for praise. | |