Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN GOD'S IMAGE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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IN GOD'S IMAGE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is that image wherein I was made
Last Line: And radiate a glory like the sun.
Subject(s): God


What is that image wherein I was made,
The image of my God? His mighty form
I may not dare to fancy, -- eyes and mouth,
All-hearing ears and hands all-powerful;
But what is form beside reality?
For God is love; and in the shape of love
I therefore am created: made to love,
And love-inspiring even as my Lord.
And God is light; so, in light's image, I:
I also a discloser as the light,
A cleanser as the sunshine, and, as light,
A fashioner of beauties manifold.
God is a spirit; spirit, then, am I:
No chance commixture of the elements,
No foundling outcast at the door of Time,
But Lord of matter and the universe,
Beginning life when they have passed away.
And God -- supreme disclosure of His grace! --
God is our Father; father, then, am I:
Formed for creating, guiding, cherishing,
Formed for the fashioning of other lives
In my own image as my God in His.
Nobler is this to be than all the host
Of splendid angels and the seraphim
That speed with wings of light from star to star,
And radiate a glory like the sun.





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