UK Bible Students Website. Poem for the Day | ||||||||
IF WE HAD BUT A DAY
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WE
should fill the hours with the sweetest things,
If we had but a
day:
We
should drink alone at the purest springs
On
our upward way;
We
should love with a lifetime’s love in an hour,
If the hours were
few;
We should sleep, not for
dreams,
but for fresher
power,
To be and to do.
We
should hold our wearied or wayward wills
To the clearest
light;
We
should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills.
If they lay in
sight;
We
should hush our murmurs of discontent
At
a life’s defeat;
We
should take whatever a good God sent
With a rest complete.
We
should waste no moment in weak regret,
If the days were but
one,
If
what we remember and what we forget
Went
out with the sun;
We
should be from our clamorous selves set free,
To
work and to pray;
To
be what the Father would have us be,
If we had but a day.
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