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First Line: If I could trust mine own self with your fate
Last Line: Whose love your love's capacity can fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Trust
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Women - Heroes; Theology


If I could trust mine own self with your fate,
Shall I not rather trust it in God's hand?
Without Whose Will one lily doth not stand,
Nor sparrow fall at his appointed date;
Who numbereth the innumerable sand,
Who weighs the wind and water with a weight,
To Whom the world is neither small nor great,
Whose knowledge foreknew every plan we plann'd.
Searching my heart for all that touches you,
I find there only love and love's goodwill
Helpless to help and impotent to do,
Of understanding dull, of sight most dim;
And therefore I commend you back to Him
Whose love your love's capacity can fill.





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