The Candle Of The Lord

“The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.”

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”

Our spirit-ay, our own!-the tree whose fruits

Have never fail’d-the sign upon the door

‘Twixt us and God’s intelligent dumb brutes,

That parts us evermore!

Our spirit-last, best gift-still unbereft

Of treasures stored in Eden’s happy land;

One fragment of the human, as it left

The Divine Maker’s hand.

That seal of our high birth He did allow

Toea unharm’d the sin and woe and strife;

That remnant of our godhead-wanting now

Only the “breath of life.”

Only the breath of life, whereby the Lord

Made use to be His equals, fit to fill

His throne-our free wills brought into accord

With His own sovereign will.

Our spirit-not the feeble soul which came

With our dishonour’d state and its new needs;

And not the feebler heart of sin and shame,

That daily breaks and bleeds.

Our spirit-our unshatter’d lamp-still ours-

Fill’d with the heavenly essence, as of yore,-

To bear a light, to light the midnight hours,

And light the wreck to shore.

Ay, ’tis the same-the same! It hath not shared

The mutilation and the curse and blight;

When the destruction fell, the lamp was spared-

Only deprived of Light.

O God! and hath it ever ceased to grope

For light, and yearn and cry for light to come?

In blackest gloom, ere revelation spoke,

While yet the Christ was dumb,

Thou knowest it search’d for every wandering ray,

And never wearied of the weary quest;

And fed and fenced and treasured, day by day,

A glimmer in its breast.

O holy Dove! O Grace! O Love! come down-

Our spirit with Thy perfect light inspire!

Circle each candle with its flaming crown,

Its cloven tongue of fire!

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• Limericks by Robby Charters by Poetry In English
• It is a Show by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Haiku by Robby Charters by Poetry In English
• Forgotten Promises by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• For what’s worth breathing by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Everlasting Wander by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Drowned in Illusion by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Dropping Truth on That Pretty Little Head by Rob Leatherman Sr. by Poetry In English
• Clinic by Rob Leatherman Sr. by Poetry In English
• An Untold Love by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• A Wandering Knight by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• A Slight Change by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• A Perfect World by Robby Charters by Poetry In English
• Winged And Acid Dark by Robert Hass by Poetry In English
• Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos by Poetry In English
• The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos by Poetry In English
• The Sympathies of the Long Married by Robert Bly by Poetry In English
• The Song of the Borderguard by Robert Duncan by Poetry In English
• The Ring of Stars by Robert Desnos by Poetry In English
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