Poems (Coolidge)/The Shepherd Good
THE SHEPHERD GOOD
(Suggested by a sermon)
A Shepherd good like unto thee In gentle, watchful ministry, This I may be if I abide, O Saviour, ever at thy side.
The wide, wide world may be the fold; The sheep? no name should I withhold; They number all who need my care, The torn, the bruised are everywhere.
The "waters still," the "pastures green," May be my strength on which they lean; My voice! Oh, may each wanderer heed; My table those ahungered feed.
Oh, make my love so full, complete, That for thy service I am meet; A shepherd's sacrifice be mine, Till,—this life lost,—I find—divine.