Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEW SONGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: How weary must jehovah be
Last Line: You sing for aye the new new song!
Subject(s): Worship


How weary must Jehovah be
Of our unchanging minstrelsy,
The dull, repeated monotone
That falters upward to the Throne!

How must Jehovah, though the spheres
Make heavenly music for His ears,
Amid their soulless rhythm long
To hear a new, a human, song!

Our filmy fashions flit and fly
Like drifting clouds across the sky;
Dress, manners, language, customs, range
Through endless, fascinating change.

But still in routine, heartless ways,
The Giver of all life we praise,
And while His varying seasons roll
We offer Him a stolid soul.

Bestir thee, grateful human heart,
And learn thanksgiving's happy art!
Cease the unmeaning, careless song
Thy slothful lips have used so long!

For each new gift of heaven, strive
Some novel praises to contrive,
Some paean of the life or tongue
As prompt, as personal, as young!

With no stale words of yesterday
Thy formal obligations pay,
But let thy hallelujahs rise
New-fledged to greet the morning skies!

Be all thy life, in word and deed,
A vital hymn, a present creed,
Until, amid the angel throng,
You sing for aye the new New Song!





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