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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• A Big Idea? by Satish Verma by Poetry In English
• Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• The Perch by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• The Otter by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• The Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Testimony by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Strange Fruit by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Song by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Rite of Spring by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Postscript by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Lovers on Aran by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
• Limbo by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Justin Heaney
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