| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 125. Five Prayers |
| | | By Blanche Edith Baughan |
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| TO taste | |
| Wild wine of the mountain-spring, fresh, living, strong, | |
| Running and rushing like a triumph-song | |
| Round hearts new-braced: | |
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| To smell | 5 |
| A growing cowslip, some glad morn of Spring, | |
| And breathe the breath of every fragrant thing | |
| From every bell: | |
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| To touch | |
| A sliding wavelet, supple, smooth and thin,— | 10 |
| Just ere the pois’d and perfect crests begin | |
| To bend too much: | |
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| To hear | |
| Amid May twilight, by the murmuring sea, | |
| Some blackbird warbling from a budded tree, | 15 |
| Tender and clear: | |
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| To see | |
| Down young rose-petals how the deepening light | |
| Glides gradually, till, somewhere out of sight, | |
| What light must be!— | 20 |
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| O Thou, intense | |
| Rapture of Beauty! All-pervading Lord! | |
| Is not this worship? So art Thou ador’d | |
| By every sense! | |
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