Poems (Procter)/Ministering Angels
MINISTERING ANGELS
NGELS of light, spread your bright wings and keep Near me at morn:Nor in the starry eve, nor midnight deep, Leave me forlorn.From all dark spirits of unholy power Guard my weak heartCircle around me in each perilous hour, And take my part.
From all foreboding thoughts and dangerous fears, Keep me secure;Teach me to hope, and through the bitterest tears Still to endure.
If lonely in the road so fair and wide My feet should stray,Then through a rougher, safer pathway guide Me day by day.
Should my heart faint at its unequal strife, O still be near!Shadow the perilous sweetness of this life With holy fear.
Then leave me not alone in this bleak world, Where'er I roam,And at the end, with your bright wings unfurled, O take me home!