LABOR AND PRAYER
With spirit-hunger humbler grown,
The seeker lifts his saddened eyes
To Him whose everlasting throne
Fills all the earth and all the skies;
And from that oracle of might,
Healing the torment of the rod,
List to the accents of delight:
“The germ of action glows in God!”
The sum of all is: Seek ye first
The heavenly kingdom Christ restored,
Exclaiming, with supernal thirst,
“The glory Thine alone, O Lord!”
Then shall descend celestial rest,
Unknown to children of despair,
The consecration of the Blest,
In labor, patience, faith and prayer!
Labor, to do the best we may,
In patient kinship with our trust;
Faith, to illume the coming day
That wakes the tragic trance of dust;
Prayer, to deserve the Guiding Hand,
Without whose grasp our steps are vain—
Lord! to thy other Living Land
Link us with that electric chain!
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