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George MacDonald - The PrismGeorge MacDonald - The Prism
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I. A pool of broken sunbeams lay Upon the passage-floor, Radiant and rich, profound and gay As ever diamond bore. Small, flitting hands a handkerchief Spread like a cunning trap: Prone lay the gorgeous jewel-sheaf In the glory-gleaner`s lap! Deftly she folded up the prize, With lovely avarice; Like one whom having had made wise, She bore it off in bliss. But ah, when for her prisoned gems She peeped, to prove them there, No glories broken from their stems Lay in the kerchief bare! For still, outside the nursery door, The bright persistency, A molten diadem on the floor, Lay burning wondrously. II. How oft have I laid fold from fold And peered into my mind— To see of all the purple and gold Not one gleam left behind! The best of gifts will not be stored: The manna of yesterday Has filled no sacred miser-hoard To keep new need away. Thy grace, O Lord, it is thyself; Thy presence is thy light; I cannot lay it on my shelf, Or take it from thy sight. For daily bread we daily pray— The want still breeds the cry; And so we meet, day after day, Thou, Father in heaven, and I. Is my house dreary, wall and floor, Will not the darkness flit, I go outside my shadowy door And in thy rainbow sit.
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