Let Your Light So Shine + 

Sometimes, O Lord, thou lightest in my head + 

A lamp that well might pharos all the lands; + 

Anon the light will neither rise nor spread: + 

Shrouded in danger gray the beacon stands! + 

A pharos? Oh dull brain! poor dying lamp + 

Under a bushel with an earthy smell! + 

Mouldering it stands, in rust and eating damp, + 

While the slow oil keeps oozing from its cell! + 

For me it were enough to be a flower + 

Knowing its root in thee, the Living, hid, + 

Ordained to blossom at the appointed hour, + 

And wake or sleep as thou, my Nature, bid; + 

But hear my brethren in their darkling fright! + 

Hearten my lamp that it may shine abroad + 

Then will they cry⁠—Lo, there is something bright! + 

Who kindled it if not the shining God? + 