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Poetry meme
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dreamflower02. When you see this, post some poetry.
This is actually two poems, from George MacDonald's Diary of an Old Soul, which has a short poem for every day of the year. These are the entries for July 15 and 16, which have really resonated with me lately -- especially the last three lines of the second one.
Too eager I must not be to understand.
How should the work the Master goes about
Fit the vague sketch my compasses have planned?
I am his house -- for him to go in and out.
He builds me now -- and if I cannot see
At any time what he is doing with me,
'Tis that he makes the house for me too grand.
The house is not for me -- it is for him.
His royal thoughts require many a stair,
Many a tower, many an outlook fair,
Of which I have no thought, and need no care.
Where I am most perplexed, it may be there
Thou mak'st a secret chamber, holy-dim,
Where thou wilt come to help my deepest prayer.
dreamflower02. When you see this, post some poetry.This is actually two poems, from George MacDonald's Diary of an Old Soul, which has a short poem for every day of the year. These are the entries for July 15 and 16, which have really resonated with me lately -- especially the last three lines of the second one.
Too eager I must not be to understand.
How should the work the Master goes about
Fit the vague sketch my compasses have planned?
I am his house -- for him to go in and out.
He builds me now -- and if I cannot see
At any time what he is doing with me,
'Tis that he makes the house for me too grand.
The house is not for me -- it is for him.
His royal thoughts require many a stair,
Many a tower, many an outlook fair,
Of which I have no thought, and need no care.
Where I am most perplexed, it may be there
Thou mak'st a secret chamber, holy-dim,
Where thou wilt come to help my deepest prayer.
