第 6 节
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辛苦 更新:2022-04-12 11:59 字数:9321
It is the human creative agony;
Though but to hold the heart an empty cup;
Or tighten on the team the rigid rein。
Many will rather lie among the slain
Than creep through narrow ways the light to gain
Than wake the will; and be born bitterly。
21。
But he who would be born again indeed;
Must wake his soul unnumbered times a day;
And urge himself to life with holy greed;
Now ope his bosom to the Wind's free play;
And now; with patience forceful; hard; lie still;
Submiss and ready to the making will;
Athirst and empty; for God's breath to fill。
22。
All times are thine whose will is our remede。
Man turns to thee; thou hast not turned away;
The look he casts; thy labour that did breed
It is thy work; thy business all the day:
That look; not foregone fitness; thou dost heed。
For duty absolute how be fitter than now?
Or learn by shunning?Lord; I come; help thou。
23。
Ever above my coldness and my doubt
Rises up something; reaching forth a hand:
This thing I know; but cannot understand。
Is it the God in me that rises out
Beyond my self; trailing it up with him;
Towards the spirit…home; the freedom…land;
Beyond my conscious ken; my near horizon's brim?
24。
O God of man; my heart would worship all
My fellow men; the flashes from thy fire;
Them in good sooth my lofty kindred call;
Born of the same one heart; the perfect sire;
Love of my kind alone can set me free;
Help me to welcome all that come to me;
Not close my doors and dream solitude liberty!
25。
A loving word may set some door ajar
Where seemed no door; and that may enter in
Which lay at the heart of that same loving word。
In my still chamber dwell thou always; Lord;
Thy presence there will carriage true afford;
True words will flow; pure of design to win;
And to my men my door shall have no bar。
26。
My prayers; my God; flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am。
Like weary waves thought follows upon thought;
But the still depth beneath is all thine own;
And there thou mov'st in paths to us unknown。
Out of strange strife thy peace is strangely wrought;
If the lion in us praythou answerest the lamb。
27。
So bound in selfishness am I; so chained;
I know it must be glorious to be free
But know not what; full…fraught; the word doth mean。
By loss on loss I have severely gained
Wisdom enough my slavery to see;
But liberty; pure; absolute; serene;
No fre雜t…visioned slave has ever seen。
28。
For; that great freedom how should such as I
Be able to imagine in such a self?
Less hopeless far the miser man might try
To image the delight of friend…shared pelf。
Freedom is to be like thee; face and heart;
To know it; Lord; I must be as thou art;
I cannot breed the imagination high。
29。
Yet hints come to me from the realm unknown;
Airs drift across the twilight border land;
Odoured with life; and as from some far strand
Sea…murmured; whispers to my heart are blown
That fill me with a joy I cannot speak;
Yea; from whose shadow words drop faint and weak:
Thee; God; I shadow in that region grand。
30。
O Christ; who didst appear in Judah land;
Thence by the cross go back to God's right hand;
Plain history; and things our sense beyond;
In thee together come and correspond:
How rulest thou from the undiscovered bourne
The world…wise world that laughs thee still to scorn?
Please; Lord; let thy disciple understand。
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'Tis heart on heart thou rulest。 Thou art the same
At God's right hand as here exposed to shame;
And therefore workest now as thou didst then
Feeding the faint divine in humble men。
Through all thy realms from thee goes out heart…power;
Working the holy; satisfying hour;
When all shall love; and all be loved again。
JUNE。
1。
FROM thine; as then; the healing virtue goes
Into our heartsthat is the Father's plan。
》From heart to heart it sinks; it steals; it flows;
》From these that know thee still infecting those。
Here is my heartfrom thine; Lord; fill it up;
That I may offer it as the holy cup
Of thy communion to my every man。
2。
When thou dost send out whirlwinds on thy seas;
Alternatest thy lightning with its roar;
Thy night with morning; and thy clouds with stars
Or; mightier force unseen in midst of these;
Orderest the life in every airy pore;
Guidest men's efforts; rul'st mishaps and jars;
'Tis only for their hearts; and nothing more。
3。
This; this alone thy father careth for
That men should live hearted throughout with thee
Because the simple; only life thou art;
Of the very truth of living; the pure heart。
For this; deep waters whelm the fruitful lea;
Wars ravage; famine wastes; plague withers; nor
Shall cease till men have chosen the better part。
4。
But; like a virtuous medicine; self…diffused
Through all men's hearts thy love shall sink and float;
Till every feeling false; and thought unwise;
Selfish; and seeking; shall; sternly disused;
Wither; and die; and shrivel up to nought;
And Christ; whom they did hang 'twixt earth and skies;
Up in the inner world of men arise。
5。
Make me a fellow worker with thee; Christ;
Nought else befits a God…born energy;
Of all that's lovely; only lives the highest;
Lifing the rest that it shall never die。
Up I would be to help theefor thou liest
Not; linen…swathed in Joseph's garden…tomb;
But walkest crowned; creation's heart and bloom。
6。
My God; when I would lift my heart to thee;
Imagination instantly doth set
A cloudy something; thin; and vast; and vague;
To stand for him who is the fact of me;
Then up the Will; and doth her weakness plague
To pay the heart her duty and her debt;
Showing the face that hearkeneth to the plea。
7。
And hence it comes that thou at times dost seem
To fade into an image of my mind;
I; dreamer; cover; hide thee up with dream;
Thee; primal; individual entity!
No likeness will I seek to frame or find;
But cry to that which thou dost choose to be;
To that which is my sight; therefore I cannot see。
8。
No likeness? Lo; the Christ! Oh; large Enough!
I see; yet fathom not the face he wore。
He isand out of him there is no stuff
To make a man。 Let fail me every spark
Of blissful vision on my pathway rough;
I have seen much; and trust the perfect more;
While to his feet my faith crosses the wayless dark。
9。
Faith is the human shadow of thy might。
Thou art the one self…perfect life; and we
Who trust thy life; therein join on to thee;
Taking our part in self…creating light。
To trust is to step forward out of the night
To beto share in the outgoing Will
That lives and is; because outgoing still。
10。
I am lost before thee; Father! yet I will
Claim of thee my birthright ineffable。
Thou lay'st it on me; son; to claim thee; sire;
To that which thou hast made me; I aspire;
To thee; the sun; upflames thy kindled fire。
No man presumes in that to which he was born;
Less than the gift to claim; would be the giver to scorn。
11。
Henceforth all things thy dealings are with me
For out of thee is nothing; or can be;
And all things are to draw us home to thee。
What matter that the knowers scoffing say;
〃This is old folly; plain to the new day〃?
If thou be such as thou; and they as they;
Unto thy Let there be; they still must answer Nay。
12。
They will not; therefore cannot; do not know him。
Nothing they could know; could be God。 In sooth;
Unto the true alone exists the truth。
They say well; saying Nature doth not show him:
Truly she shows not what she cannot show;
And they deny the thing they cannot know。
Who sees a glory; towards it will go。
13。
Faster no step moves God because the fool
Shouts to the universe God there is none;
The blindest man will not preach out the sun;
Though on his darkness he should found a school。
It may be; when he finds he is not dead;
Though world and body; sight and sound are fled;
Some eyes may open in his foolish head。
14。
When I am very weary with hard thought;
And yet the question burns and is not quenched;
My heart grows cool when to remembrance wrought
That thou who know'st the light…born answer sought
Know'st too the dark where the doubt lies entrenched
Know'st with what seemings I am sore perplexed;
And that with thee I wait; nor needs my soul be vexed。
15。
Who sets himself not sternly to be good;
Is but a fool; who judgment of true things
Has none; however oft the claim renewed。
And he who thinks; in his great plenitude;
To right himself; and set his spirit free;
Without the might of higher communings;
Is foolish alsosave he willed himself to be。
16。
How many helps thou giv'st to those would learn!
To some sore pain; to others a sinking heart;
To some a weariness worse than any smart;
To some a haunting; fearing; blind concern;
Madness to some; to some the shaking dart
Of hideous death still following as they turn;
To some a hunger that will not depart。
17。
To some thou giv'st a deep unresta scorn
Of all they are or see upon the earth;
A gaze; at dusky night and clearing morn;
As on a land of emptiness and dearth;
To some a bitter sorrow; to some the sting
Of love misprizedof sick abandoning;
To some a frozen heart; oh; worse than anything!
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To some a mockin