Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | II. Prayer and Aspiration | | Ascription | | Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | | O THOU who hast beneath Thy hand | |
| The dark foundations of the land,— | |
| The motion of whose ordered thought | |
| An instant universe hath wrought,— | |
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| Who hast within Thine equal heed | 5 |
| The rolling sun, the ripening seed, | |
| The azure of the speedwell’s eye, | |
| The vast solemnities of sky,— | |
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| Who hear’st no less the feeble note | |
| Of one small bird’s awakening throat, | 10 |
| Than that unnamed, tremendous chord | |
| Arcturus sounds before his Lord,— | |
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| More sweet to Thee than all acclaim | |
| Of storm and ocean, stars and flame, | |
| In favor more before Thy face | 15 |
| Than pageantry of time and space, | |
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| The worship and the service be | |
| Of him Thou madest most like Thee,— | |
| Who in his nostrils hath Thy breath, | |
| Whose spirit is the lord of death! | 20 | | | |
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