Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="WORSHIP" id="WORSHIP"></SPAN>Worship</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">I</span> DID not always know ’twas kind<br/></span> <span class="ih">Of thee to let me pass,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And with my sacrilegious feet<br/></span> <span class="i2">Walk lightly thru thy grass.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">How could I know, when I was young<br/></span> <span class="i2">’Twas one of thine own dreams,<br/></span> <span class="i0">To tender me the license of<br/></span> <span class="i2">Thy hills and singing streams.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">How could’st thou take even a part<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of thy remotest time,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And weld me, poor unworthly link,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Into this chain of thine.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">One day I learned at cost of pain<br/></span> <span class="i2">Among the shadows dim,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Thy gift of violets, Oh! God<br/></span> <span class="i2">Their fragrance cutting in.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I set apart one hallowed day<br/></span> <span class="i2">Forever dear to me.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Because thou taughtest me to love<br/></span> <span class="i2">A flowering apple tree.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_19" id="page_19">{19}</SPAN></span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And since I’ve older grown and drawn<br/></span> <span class="i2">To solitudes apart,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I find I cannot tell the Lord<br/></span> <span class="i2">All that is in my heart.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_20" id="page_20">{20}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />