Lord of Unnumbered Hopes
Lord of Unnumbered Hopes
Original Text
The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian
Poetry 1828-1965, ed. Vinayak Kristna Gokak (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1970):
167. PR 1174 G6 1970 Robarts Library
1Lord of unnumbered hopes, unnumbered prayers,
2 Immaculate dream, unknown, unknowable
3 To mortal sense save dimly through the spell
4Of earth's delights and quickening despairs,
5Forgive what we have been, and what we are,
6 For that which in Time's fullness we shall be!
7 Thou art the Light, and in Thy shadow we
8Move in our pathways like a growing star.
9Make grow our comprehension till we see
10Through life's bewildering complexity
11The touch by which inscrutably is wrought
12Thy will: and shape each word, each act, each thought,
13 Until we learn to read Thy will aright
14 And pass from shadow to Eternal Light.
Publication Start Year
1966
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2001
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