A Winter Prayer + 

Come through the gloom of clouded skies, + 

The slow dim rain and fog athwart; + 

Through east winds keen with wrong and lies + 

Come and lift up my hopeless heart. + 

Come through the sickness and the pain, + 

The sore unrest that tosses still; + 

Through aching dark that hides the gain + 

Come and arouse my fainting will. + 

Come through the prate of foolish words, + 

The science with no God behind; + 

Through all the pangs of untuned chords + 

Speak wisdom to my shaken mind. + 

Through all the fears that spirits bow + 

Of what hath been, or may befall, + 

Come down and talk with me, for thou + 

Canst tell me all about them all. + 

Hear, hear my sad lone heart entreat, + 

Heart of all joy, below, above! + 

Come near and let me kiss thy feet, + 

And name the names of those I love! + 