Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GIFT, by EMMA VORIES MEYER


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THE GIFT, by                    
First Line: Well done, thou faithful servant. Enter now
Last Line: For lo, his gift lay buried in a dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ


"Well done, thou faithful servant. Enter now
Into thy joys!" And then He turned to me.
'What hast thou done with that I gave to thee?"
He took me by surprise! I wondered how
He came so soon! For I had made a vow
To take the little gift of low degree
And make it flourish like a mighty tree
With gifts of luscious fruit on every bough.

And so I could not face the Holy Son
Of God. Although my silence made me seem
Ungrateful that he gave to me the one
Small gift that I had hoped to make supreme.
I wept that He should see what I had done.
For lo, His gift lay buried in a dream!





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