PUBLIC LIBRARY 747827 ASTOR, LENOX AND 9:7 COPYRIGHT 1916, BY L. M. CROSS All rights reserved (Printed in the United States A CALL TO PRAYER Let us put by some hour of every day For holy things! whether it be when dawn Peers through the window-pane, or when the noon Flames, like a burnished topaz, in the vault, Or when the thrush pours in the ear of eve Its plaintive monody; some little hour Wherein to hold rapt converse with the soul, From sordidness and self a sanctuary, Swept by the winnowing of unseen wings, And touched by the White Light Ineffable! |