Poet’s Homecoming

Hello all,

I read something yesterday that I want to share with you. It moved me more than I can express. It’s like a painting/picture of how the Lord has led me over the past 11 years or so. Hope it touches your heart in the same way.

Have a beautiful day!

Stephanie

From The Poet’s Homecoming, by George MacDonald.

How shall he sing who hath no song,
He laugh who hath no mirth?
Will strongest cannot wake a song!
It is no use to strive or long
To sing with them that have a song.
And mirthless laugh with mirth!
Though sad, he must confront the wrong,
And for the right face any throng,
Waiting, with patience sweet and strong,
Until God’s glory fills the earth;
Then shall he sing who had no song,
He laugh who had no mirth!

Yea, if like barren rock thou sit
Upon a land of dearth,
Round which but phantom waters fit,
Of visionary birth—
Yet be thou still, ad wait, wait long;
There comes a sea to drown the wrong,
His glory shall o’erwhelm the earth,
And thou, no more a scathed rock,
Shalt start alive with gladsome shock,
Shalt a hand-clapping billow be,
And shout with the eternal sea!

To righteousness and love belong
The dance, the jubiliance, the song!
For, lo, the right hath quelled the wrong,
And truth hath stilled the lying tongue!
For, lo, the glad God fills the earth,
And Love sits down by every hearth!
Now must thou sing because of song,
Now laugh because of mirth!

“He makes the barren woman abide in the house as a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!” Psalm 113:9

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