Poems (Cary)/Devotion

For works with similar titles, see Devotion.

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DEVOTION.
Within a silver wave of cloud The yellow sunset light was staid,As on the daisied turf she bowed: I saw and loved her as she prayed—Thy holy will on earth be done,As in the heavens, all-hallowed One!
No evil word her lip had learned; Her heart with love was overfull;No scarlet sinfulness had turned Her garment from the look of woolGive us, oh Lord, our daily bread;Keep us and guide us home, she said.
No violet, with head so low, Were sweetly meek as she in prayer;Nor rising from the April snow A daffodilly, half so fair,As her uprising from the sod,Fresh from communion with her God.
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