Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INVOCATION, by MILDRED ETHEL MEEKER



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INVOCATION, by                    
First Line: God, grant me days to live and learn
Last Line: Attuned to immortality.
Subject(s): Faith; Prayer; Belief; Creed


God, grant me days to live and learn,
To ponder all the powers that be,
To pore among a thousand books
And feel their truths arise in me
And flood my soul with glory
Like the swelling of a tide,
Until the merest words of me
Reflect the light inside.

God, grant me hours to dream away
In some remote and cloistered nook,
To lie upon the grass and hear
The rhythmic tinkle of a brook
And gaze upon the wonders there
Till beauty blasts my greedy sight,
To know again the poignant joy
That broods above a summer night.

God, grant me weeks and months and years
To make my life a noble thing,
Resplendent with the harmony
That love and pain and laughter bring,
To prove me brave and strong and true
When I must joust adversity,
To keep within a steadfast heart
Attuned to immortality.





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