S U N D A Y   S N I P P E T S (tm) # 1 2 4               10 May '98

		        A Better Resurrection
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    I have no wit, no words, no tears;
    My heart within me like a stone
    Is numbed too much for hopes or fears.
    Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
    I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief
    No everlasting hills I see;
    My life is in the falling leaf:
    O Jesus, quicken me.

    My life is like a faded leaf,
    My harvest dwindled to a husk:
    Truly my life is void and brief
    And tedious in the barren dusk;
    My life is like a frozen thing,
    No bud nor greenness can I see:
    Yet rise it shall--the sap of spring;
    O Jesus, rise in me.

    My life is like a broken bowl,
    A broken bowl that cannot hold
    One drop of water for my soul
    Or cordial in the searching cold;
    Cast in the fire the perished thing;
    Melt and remould it, till it be
    A royal cup for Him, my King:
    O Jesus, drink of me.

            -  Christina Rossetti (d. 1894)

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