REQUIESCAT IN PACE. While no power of pause is given To the inheritors of heaven; Still becoming, more than being, In their awful course they run, How their Souls new light absorb Demiurgos throned above, Mind of Mind, and Love of Love. LORD HOUGHTON. 61 HIS did not once so trouble me, That better I could not love Thee; That only when we love, we find How far our hearts remain behind The love they should bestow. II. While we had little care to call On Thee, and scarcely prayed at all, Our lips their offerings pay. GROWTH IN GRACE. III. And when we gave yet slighter heed 63 IV. In doing is this knowledge won, And give us grace, a growing store, And may esteem it less. ARCHBISHOP TRENCH. SHRINE of God that now Must learn itself with awe! O heart and soul that move That which seem'd all the rule Of Nature, is but part; A larger, deeper law Claims also soul and heart. The force that framed and bore us hither Itself at once is whence and whither. We may not hope to read Nor comprehend the whole Or of the law of things Or of the law of soul: WHENCE AND WHITHER. Among the eternal stars Dim perturbations; And all the searchers' search Does not exhaust the skies; 65 He who has framed and brought us hither Holds in His hands the whence and whither. He in His science plans What no known laws foretell; The wandering fires and fix'd Alike are miracle : The common death of all, The life renew'd above, Are both within the scheme Of that all-encircling love; The seeming chance that cast us hither Then, though the sun go up His beaten azure way, God may fulfil his thought And bless his world to-day; Beside the law of things The law of mind enthrone, F |