Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DEAREST ONE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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First Line: Oh! Which of all my dearest dear is most / my very own?
Last Line: Whose want and weakness are his prayer, and without word can plead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer


OH! which of all my dearest dear is most my very own?
Whom do I pray for oftenest when kneeling at the throne?
'Tis not the one whose earthly cup is brimmed with gift and grace,
Nor yet the one whose winsome heart looks from the bonniest face;
The dearest dear of all mine own is one in greatest need,
The one whose burden heaviest weighs, whose path is rough indeed.
For him I claim the help of Heaven, for him I cling about
The cross of the All-pitiful till flesh and strength give out;
And still it is the neediest for whom I plead and pray,
What time I bring my dearest dear to Christ at fall of day.

If, all imperfect as I am, thus love doth reign in me,
How better far, and truer far, must Christ the shepherd be,
Whose greater love hath largesse for the weakest of his own—
Who, by the hunger and the thirst, the faintness and the moan,
Doth measure still the bounty that, outflowing day by day,
Uplifts and helps the weary one who stumbleth in the way.
Dear Love, sweet Love, thy dearest dear, 'tis he who most hath need,
Whose want and weakness are his prayer, and without word can plead.





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