Share:
  Guess poet | Poets | Poets timeline | Isles | Contacts

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Hymn For My Brother`s OrdinationHenry Wadsworth Longfellow - Hymn For My Brother`s Ordination
Work rating: Low


Christ to the young man said: "Yet one thing more;   If thou wouldst perfect be, Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor,   And come and follow me!" Within this temple Christ again, unseen,   Those sacred words hath said, And his invisible hands to-day have been   Laid on a young man`s head. And evermore beside him on his way   The unseen Christ shall move, That he may lean upon his arm and say,   "Dost thou, dear Lord, approve?" Beside him at the marriage feast shall be,   To make the scene more fair; Beside him in the dark Gethsemane   Of pain and midnight prayer. O holy trust!  O endless sense of rest!   Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour`s breast,   And thus to journey on!
Source

The script ran 0.001 seconds.