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First Line: Dear god, I stand with empty hands
Last Line: To ecstasy.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Worship


Dear God, I stand with empty hands
To have them filled.
The other gifts Thou gavest me
I long have spilled.
And some I broke upon these stones,
And some are bled
Until they died, because my thoughts
To strangeness wed.

Dear God, I would have other gifts
Within my hands.
Seal them upon me in Thy wrath
With golden bands;
That I may never lose again
A love, but free
My heart, in deepening loneliness,
To ecstasy.





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