第 6 节
作者: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。
  31。
  '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!
  18。
  To some a mockin