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O strong upwelling prayers of faith	A
From inmost founts of life ye start	B
The spirit's pulse the vital breath	C
Of soul and heart	B
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From pastoral toil from traffic's din	D
Alone in crowds at home abroad	E
Unheard of man ye enter in	D
The ear of God	F
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Ye brook no forced and measured tasks	G
Nor weary rote nor formal chains	H
The simple heart that freely asks	G
In love obtains	H
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For man the living temple is	I
The mercy seat and cherubim	J
And all the holy mysteries	K
He bears with him	J
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And most avails the prayer of love	L
Which wordless shapes itself in needs	M
And wearies Heaven for naught above	L
Our common needs	M
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Which brings to God's all perfect will	N
That trust of His undoubting child	O
Whereby all seeming good and ill	N
Are reconciled	O
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And seeking not for special signs	P
Of favor is content to fall	Q
Within the providence which shines	P
And rains on all	Q
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Alone the Thebaid hermit leaned	R
At noontime o'er the sacred word	S
Was it an angel or a fiend	R
Whose voice be heard	S
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It broke the desert's hush of awe	T
A human utterance sweet and mild	O
And looking up the hermit saw	U
A little child	O
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A child with wonder widened eyes	V
O'erawed and troubled by the sight	W
Of hot red sands and brazen skies	V
And anchorite	W
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''What dost thou here poor man No shade	W
Of cool green palms nor grass nor well	X
Nor corn nor vines ' The hermit said	W
'With God I dwell	X
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'Alone with Him in this great calm	J
I live not by the outward sense	Y
My Nile his love my sheltering palm	J
His providence '	-
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The child gazed round him 'Does God live	Z
Here only where the desert's rim	J
Is green with corn at morn and eve	A2
We pray to Him	J
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'My brother tills beside the Nile	B2
His little field beneath the leaves	C2
My sisters sit and spin the while	B2
My mother weaves	C2
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'And when the millet's ripe heads fall	Q
And all the bean field hangs in pod	W
My mother smiles and says that all	Q
Are gifts from God '	-
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Adown the hermit's wasted cheeks	D2
Glistened the flow of human tears	E2
'Dear Lord ' he said 'Thy angel speaks	D2
Thy servant hears '	-
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Within his arms the child he took	F2
And thought of home and life with men	G2
And all his pilgrim feet forsook	F2
Returned again	G2
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The palmy shadows cool and long	H2
The eyes that smiled through lavish locks	I2
Home's cradle hymn and harvest song	H2
And bleat of flocks	I2
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'O child ' he said 'thou teachest me	J
There is no place where God is not	W
That love will make where'er it be	J
A holy spot '	-
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He rose from off the desert sand	W
And leaning on his staff of thorn	J2
Went with the young child hand in hand	W
Like night with morn	J2
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They crossed the desert's burning line	K2
And heard the palm tree's rustling fan	L2
The Nile bird's cry the low of kine	L2
And voice of man	L2
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Unquestioning his childish guide	W
He followed as the small hand led	W
To where a woman gentle eyed	W
Her distaff fed	W
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She rose she clasped her truant boy	M2
She thanked the stranger with her eyes	V
The hermit gazed in doubt and joy	M2
And dumb surprise	V
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And to with sudden warmth and light	W
A tender memory thrilled his frame	J
New born the world lost anchorite	W
A man became	J
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'O sister of El Zara's race	N2
Behold me had we not one mother '	-
She gazed into the stranger's face	N2
'Thou art my brother '	-
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'And when to share our evening meal	O2
She calls the stranger at the door	P2
She says God fills the hands that deal	O2
Food to the poor '	-
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'O kin of blood Thy life of use	Q2
And patient trust is more than mine	L2
And wiser than the gray recluse	Q2
This child of thine	L2
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'For taught of him whom God hath sent	W
That toil is praise and love is prayer	R2
I come life's cares and pains content	W
With thee to share '	-
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Even as his foot the threshold crossed	W
The hermit's better life began	L2
Its holiest saint the Thebaid lost	W
And found a man	L2

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