ABASH'D be all the boast of age! Be hoary learning dumb! Expounder of the mystic page, Behold an Infant come! Oh Wisdom, whose unfading power Beside the Eternal stood, To frame, in nature's earliest hour, The land, the sky, the flood: Yet didst not Thou disdain awhile An infant form to wear; To bless Thy mother with a smile, And lisp Thy falter'd prayer. But in Thy Father's own abode, With Israel's elders round, Conversing high with Israel's God, Thy chiefest joy was found. So may our youth adore Thy name! And, Saviour, deign to bless With fostering grace the timid flame Of early holiness! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNGRATEFULNESS by GEORGE HERBERT BROWNING AT ASOLO by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON THE VICTOR AT ANTIETAM [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862] by HERMAN MELVILLE THE RUBAIYAT, 1889 EDITION: 19 by OMAR KHAYYAM HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS (2) by ANYTE EPISTLE TO JOHN RANKINE by ROBERT BURNS THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 29 by THOMAS CAMPION TO A SWALLOW BUILDING UNDER THE EAVES [AT CRAIGENPUTTOCK] by JANE WELSH CARLYLE |