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With reverent eyes and bowed uncovered head	A
A son of sorrow kneels by fanes you knew	B
But cannot say the words that should be said	A
To crowned and winged divinities like you	B
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The perfect speech of superhuman spheres	C
Man has not heard since He of Nazareth	D
Slain for the sins of twice two thousand years	C
Saw Godship gleaming through the gates of Death	E
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And therefore he who in these latter days	F
Has lost a Father falling by the shrine	G
Can only use the world s ephemeral phrase	F
Not Lord the faultless language that is Thine	G
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But he Thy son upon whose shoulders shone	H
So long Elisha s gleaming garments may	I
Be pleased to hear a pleading human tone	H
To sift the spirit of the words I say	I
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O Master since the gentle Stenhouse died	J
And left the void that none can ever fill	K
One harp at least has sorrow thrown aside	J
Its strings all broken and its notes all still	K
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Some lofty lord of music yet may find	L
Its pulse of passion I can never touch	M
The chords again my life has been too blind	L
I ve sinned too long and suffered far too much	M
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But you will listen to the voice although	N
The harp is silent you who glorified	J
Your great sad gift of life because you know	N
How souls are tempted and how hearts are tried	J
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O marvellous follower in the steps of Christ	O
How pure your spirit must have been to see	P
That light beyond our best expression priced	O
The effluence of benignant Deity	P
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You saw it Father Let me think you did	Q
Because I groping in the mists of Doubt	R
Am sometimes fearful that God s face is hid	Q
From all that none can read His riddle out	R
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A hope from lives like yours must everywhere	S
Become like faith that blessing undefiled	R
The refuge of the grey philosopher	T
The consolation of the simple child	R
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Here in a land of many sects where God	R
As shaped by man in countless forms appears	C
Few comprehend how carefully you trod	R
Without a slip for two and forty years	C
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How wonderful the self repression must	R
Have been that made you to the lovely close	U
The Christian crowned with universal trust	R
The foe less Father in a land of foes	V
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How patiently with how divine a strength	W
Of tolerance you must have watched the frays	V
Of fighting churches warring through the length	W
Of your bright beautiful unruffled days	V
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Because men strove you did not love them less	V
You felt for each for everyone and all	X
With that same apostolic tenderness	V
Which Samuel felt when yearning over Saul	X
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A crowned hierophant a high Chief Priest	R
On flame with robes of light you used to be	P
But yet you were as humble as the least	R
Of those who followed Him of Galilee	P
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Mid splendid forms of faith which flower and fill	K
God s oldest Church with gleams ineffable	Y
You stand Our Lord s serene disciple still	K
In all the blaze which on your pallium fell	Z
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The pomp of altars chasubles and fires	V
Of incense moved you not nor yet the dome	A2
Of haughty beauty follower of the Sires	V
Who made a holiness of elder Rome	A2
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A lord of scholarship whose knowledge ran	B2
Through every groove of human history you	B
Were this and more a Christian gentleman	C2
A fount of learning with a heart like dew	B
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O Father I who at your feet have knelt	R
On wings of singing fall and fail to sing	D2
Remembering the immense compassion felt	R
By you for every form of suffering	D2
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As dies a gentle April in a sky	E2
Of faultless beauty after many days	V
Of loveliness and grand tranquillity	R
So passed your presence from our human gaze	V
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But though your stately face is as the dust	R
That windy hills to wintering hollows give	F2
Your memory like a deity august	R
Is with us still to teach us how to live	G2
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Ah may it teach us may the lives that are	H2
Take colour from the life that was and may	I
Those souls be helped that in the dark so far	H2
Have strayed and have forgotten how to pray	I
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Let one of these at least retain the hope	I2
That fine examples like a blessed dew	R
Of summer falling in a fruitful scope	I2
Give birth to issues beautiful and true	R
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Such hope O Master is a light indeed	R
To him that knows how hard it is to save	J2
The spirit resting on no certain creed	R
Who kneels to plant this blossom on your grave	J2

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