Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU', by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart lies open to thy sun
Last Line: When I with thee abide!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship


And now with strengthening mercy fed,
Thou creative Christ!
Not all Thy meat nor all Thy bread
Has happily suifficed.
Transported by Thy graciousness.
That Thou will dwell in me.
My wakened powers boldly press,
Henceforth to dwell in Thee!
For Thou art more than I can know
Within my narrow bound.
And I to Thy far heights would go.
Thy deepest depths would sound.
With kindling eye and fervent heart
1 leave my little home.
In all Thy deeds to have a part.
On all Thy ways to roam.
Out on the largeness of Thy mind
My daring thoughts expand;
In Thy wide reaches unconfined
I compass sea and land.
I do not faint, I do not fear,
On tireless wings I glide.
And height is home, and far is near,
When I with Thee abide!





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