Yesterday to Day And for Ever a Poem in Twelve Books
The book Yesterday to Day And for Ever a Poem in Twelve Books was written by author Edward Henry Bickersteth Here you can read free online of Yesterday to Day And for Ever a Poem in Twelve Books book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Yesterday to Day And for Ever a Poem in Twelve Books a good or bad book?
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A babe upon its mother's breast, a child Lock'd in a father's arms — oh, things that are! Love coming forth of love and meeting love ; Love resting in its love and satisfied. And knew the earth such mysteries ? what now When through the temple courts fragrant with praise The Bridegroom led His own, His only BrMe, Into His Father's presence. His and ours? Were they the parted wings of cherubim, 210 Or opening clouds of glory which disclosed Such lineaments of love unutterable, Attemper'd as the ...spirit of each could bear ? No pain, no shrinking from excessive bright, No sense of discord, no tormenting fear (For filial love had cast out servile fear), The Spirit's grace within us meeting grace Unfathomable, and we His holy ones Drinking our fill of perfect holiness. Yet seem'd it every thought in one was lost, — £20 Whether the words were audible to those Who stood around in endless ranks of light I know not, but the}' echoed in my heart. — 878 THE MANY MANSIONS. [bOOK It was my Father's voice saying, " My child : ** And every power within me vibrated To those divinest words, — whether I spoke, Or whether others spoke, I never knew, — "My Father, O my Father!" Beams of love, The repercussion of His beams of luve, Fill'd every chamber of my soul with light, 230 As in pure waves face answers back to face ; Nor though eternity unfold the powers Of knowledge, — and to know Him is to love, — Can beatific blessedness transcend The rapture of that welcome, that response, " My child ....
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