APPROACHES
by: George Mac Donald (1824-1905)
- HEN thou
turnst away from ill,
- Christ is this side of thy hill.
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- When thou turnest toward good,
- Christ is walking in thy wood.
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- When thy heart says, Father, pardon!
- Then the Lord is in thy garden.
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- When stern Duty wakes to watch,
- Then His hand is on the latch.
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- But when Hope thy song doth rouse,
- Then the Lord is in the house.
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- When to love is all thy wit,
- Christ doth at thy table sit.
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- When Gods will is thy hearts pole,
- Then is Christ thy very soul.
"Approaches" is reprinted
from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson
& Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917. |
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