HOW shall we worship Thee, O Lord? What shall we bring To Thee, our King, By children and by men adored? More dear to Thee than prayer and praise Are loyal deeds and patient days. What can we give? Thou dost desire A steadfast will, Obedient still, And faithful work that does not tire: More dear to Thee than prayer and praise Are loyal deeds and patient days. How easy in the golden light Of summer hours, Among the flowers, To bless Thee for a world so bright! More dear to Thee than prayer and praise Are loyal deeds and patient days. When sorrow darkens all our sky, Life's blossoms lost In sudden frost, And all our courage like to die, O! help us still Thy Name to praise By loyal deeds and patient days. In life, in death, in joy, and pain, May we adore Thee more and more, Till love turn all our loss to gain, And tune the years to perfect praise In loyal deeds and patient days. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLACK MONKEY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD LINCOLN by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR FROST-WORK by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH BILL'S LENGTH by ALEXANDER ANDERSON CORYDON by LUCIUS MORRIS BEEBE JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4 by WILLIAM BLAKE |