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the diary of an old soul-第6部分
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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 mocking demon; that doth set
The poor foiled will to scoff at the ideal;
But loathsome makes to them their life of jar。
The messengers of Satan think to mar;
But makedriving the soul from false to feal
To thee; the reconciler; the one real;
In whom alone the would be and the is are met。
19。
Me thou hast given an infinite unrest;
A hungernot at first after known good;
But something vague I knew not; and yet would
The veiled Isis; thy will not understood;
A conscience tossing ever in my breast;
And something deeper; that will not be expressed;
Save as the Spirit thinking in the Spirit's brood。
20。
But now the Spirit and I are one in this
My hunger now is after righteousness;
My spirit hopes in God to set me free
》From the low self loathed of the higher me。
Great elder brother of my second birth;
Dear o'er all names but one; in heaven or earth;
Teach me all day to love eternally。
21。
Lo; Lord; thou know'st; I would not anything
That in the heart of God holds not its root;
Nor falsely deem there is any life at all
That doth in him nor sleep nor shine nor sing;
I know the plants that bear the noisome fruit
Of burning and of ashes and of gall
》From God's heart torn; rootless to man's they cling。
22。
Life…giving love rots to devouring fire;
Justice corrupts to despicable revenge;
Motherhood chokes in the dam's jealous mire;
Hunger for growth turns fluctuating change;
Love's anger grand grows spiteful human wrath;
Hunting men out of conscience' holy path;
And human kindness takes the tattler's range。
23。
Nothing can draw the heart of man but good;
Low good it is that draws him from the higher
So evilpoison uncreate from food。
Never a foul thing; with temptation dire;
Tempts hellward force created to aspire;
But walks in wronged strength of imprisoned Truth;
Whose mantle also oft the Shame indu'th。
24。
Love in the prime not yet I understand
Scarce know the love that loveth at first hand:
Help me my selfishness to scatter and scout;
Blow on me till my love loves burningly;
Then the great love will burn the mean self out;
And I; in glorious simplicity;
Living by love; shall love unspeakably。
25。
Oh; make my anger purelet no worst wrong
Rouse in me the old niggard selfishness。
Give me thine indignationwhich is love
Turned on the evil that would part love's throng;
Thy anger scathes because it needs must bless;
Gathering into union calm and strong
All things on earth; and under; and above。
26。
Make my forgiveness downrightsuch as I
Should perish if I did not have from thee;
I let the wrong go; withered up and dry;
Cursed with divine forgetfulness in me。
'Tis but self…pity; pleasant; mean; and sly;
Low whispering bids the paltry memory live:
What am I brother for; but to forgive!
27。
〃Thou art my father's childcome to my heart:〃
Thus must I say; or Thou must say; 〃Depart;〃
Thus I would sayI would be as thou art;
Thus I must say; or still I work athwart
The absolute necessity and law
That dwells in me; and will me asunder draw;
If in obedience I leave any flaw。
28。
Lord; I forgiveand step in unto thee。
If I have enemies; Christ deal with them:
He hath forgiven me and Jerusalem。
Lord; set me from self…inspiration free;
And let me live and think from thee; not me
Rather; from deepest me then think and feel;
At centre of thought's swift…revolving wheel。
29。
I sit o'ercanopied with Beauty's tent;
Through which flies many a golden…winged dove;
Well watched of Fancy's tender eyes up bent;
A hundred Powers wait on me; ministering;
A thousand treasures Art and Knowledge bring;
Will; Conscience; Reason tower the rest above;
But in the midst; alone; I gladness am and love。
30。
'Tis but a vision; Lord; I do not mean
That thus I am; or have one moment been
'Tis but a picture hung upon my wall;
To measure dull contentment therewithal;
And know behind the human how I fall;
A vision true; of what one day shall be;
When thou hast had thy very will with me。
JULY。
1。
ALAS; my tent! see through it a whirlwind sweep!
Moaning; poor Fancy's doves are swept away。
I sit alone; a sorrow half asleep;
My consciousness the blackness all astir。
No pilgrim I; a homeless wanderer
For how canst Thou be in the darkness deep;
Who dwellest only in the living day?
2。
It must be; somewhere in my fluttering tent;
Strange creatures; half tamed only yet; are pent
Dragons; lop…winged birds; and large…eyed snakes!
Hark! through the storm the saddest howling breaks!
Or are they loose; roaming about the bent;
The darkness dire deepening with moan and scream?
My Morning; rise; and all shall be a dream。
3。
Not thine; my Lord; the darkness all is mine
Save that; as mine; my darkness too is thine:
All things are thine to save or to destroy
Destroy my darkness; rise my perfect joy;
Love primal; the live coal of every night;
Flame out; scare the ill things with radiant fright;
And fill my tent with laughing morn's delight。
4。
Master; thou workest with such common things
Low souls; weak hearts; I meanand hast to use;
Therefore; such common means and rescuings;
That hard we find it; as we sit and muse;
To think thou workest in us verily:
Bad sea…boats we; and manned with wretched crews
That doubt the captain; watch the storm…spray flee。
5。
Thou art hampered in thy natural working then
When beings designed on freedom's holy plan
Will not be free: with thy poor; foolish men;
Thou therefore hast to work just like a man。
But when; tangling thyself in their sore need;
Thou hast to freedom fashioned them indeed;
Then wilt thou grandly move; and Godlike speed。
6。
Will this not then show grandest fact of all
In thy creation victory most renowned
That thou hast wrought thy will by slow and small;
And made men like thee; though thy making bound
By that which they were not; and could not be
Until thou mad'st them make along with thee?
Master; the tardiness is but in me。
7。
Hence come thy checksbecause I still would run
My head into the sand; nor flutter aloft
Towards th
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