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First Line: O weary champion of the cross, lie still
Last Line: Thy best its best, please god, thy best its best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Love; Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890)


O weary champion of the Cross, lie still:
Sleep thou at length the all-embracing sleep:
Long was thy sowing-day, rest now and reap:
Thy fast was long, feast now thy spirit's fill.
Yea take thy fill of love, because thy will
Chose love not in the shallows but the deep:
Thy tides were spring-tides, set against the neap
Of calmer souls: thy flood rebuked their rill.
Now night has come to thee -- pleased God, of rest:
So some time must it come to every man;
To first and last, where many last are first.
Now fixed and finished thine eternal plan,
Thy best has done its best, thy worst its worst:
Thy best its best, Please God, thy best its best.







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