Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CARPENTER'S SHOP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: I am a tool in the carpenter's hand
Last Line: May restore that shop again!
Subject(s): Carpenters


I am a tool in the Carpenter's hand,
And obedience only is mine.
Never a whit may I understand
The Carpenter's vast design.

Mine to stay if He bids me stay,
And go if He bids me go;
Mine to plod in the same dull way
Steadily to and fro.

Mine to present a handle firm,
And an edge that is sharp and true;
Mine to achieve, in my destined term,
Just what He would have me do.

The Nazareth shop in the centuries dead
Has sunk from the sight of men.
O joy if my life, by the Carpenter led,
May restore that shop again!





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