Can we not wait to live, or live to wait?
One lived to wait for the auspicious hour
Which passed unwaited with, within the Gate
Which opened through the gloom, to Eden's bow'r;—
Waited to live, the full-grown Life to give
For and to us, and shall we hesitate
To live to wait, or, such life, wait to live?
One lived to wait for the auspicious hour
Which passed unwaited with, within the Gate
Which opened through the gloom, to Eden's bow'r;—
Waited to live, the full-grown Life to give
For and to us, and shall we hesitate
To live to wait, or, such life, wait to live?
LOVE
Love ever wears a crimson dress,—
For Love is always suffering,—
Yet she, with Christly selfishness,
Seeks Joy's life in its offering.
For Love is always suffering,—
Yet she, with Christly selfishness,
Seeks Joy's life in its offering.
Her actions are as seed and these
In other life-soils taking root,
Bring forth abundant ministries—
And Love doth feed upon the fruit.
In other life-soils taking root,
Bring forth abundant ministries—
And Love doth feed upon the fruit.
Love findeth all her gain in loss,
And saveth only what she gives;
Her crown is shielded by the cross
On which she, daily dying, lives.
And saveth only what she gives;
Her crown is shielded by the cross
On which she, daily dying, lives.
One thought Love evermore sustains,—
Forgetting she has sacrificed,
She all forgets, but that her pains
Are caused by mothering the Christ!
Forgetting she has sacrificed,
She all forgets, but that her pains
Are caused by mothering the Christ!
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