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ALONE LORD GOD, IN WHOM OUR TRUST AND PEACE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Love offering love on love's self-feeding fire
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Worship


Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peace,
Our love and our desire, glow bright with hope;
Lift us above this transitory scope
Of earth, these pleasures that begin and cease,
This moon which wanes, these seasons which decrease:
We turn to Thee; as on an eastern slope
Wheat feels the dawn beneath night's lingering cope,
Bending and stretching sunward ere it sees.
Alone Lord God, we see not yet we know;
By love we dwell with patience and desire,
And loving so and so desiring pray;
Thy will be done in earth as heaven today;
As yesterday it was, tomorrow so;
Love offering love on love's self-feeding fire.





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