Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BE WITH US, by HENRY CHAPPELL


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First Line: We raise, o lord, the massy pile
Last Line: And peace eternal fill the heart.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


WE raise, O Lord, the massy pile
Wherein to render homage meet;
Carved altar-piece and marbled aisle
We lay as tributes at Thy feet.
Do Thou, O Lord, Who gavest each
A temple sacred and apart,
Down from Thy Heaven in mercy reach
And fill with peace each troubled heart.

We set, O Lord, the sacred pane
All storied with Thy servants' lives,
Who wrought in far off days Thy fane
To strike from prisoned souls their gyves.
Their hope is ours, our needs the same,
Dark passions sway this busy mart;
O write in glowing lines Thy name
Upon the tablets of each heart.

Life's little river narrows fast,
And twilight merges into dark;
The soundless ocean, chill and vast,
Receives each life-tossed, weary bark.
O Thou, Who left the starry skies
To bear for us the cross's smart,
Be with us till the Dawn shall rise
And peace eternal fill the heart.





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