Explore "The Old Dispensation" by Edith Nesbit on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
O THOU, who, high in heaven, / To man hast given / This clouded earthly life / All storm and strife, / Blasted with ice and fire, / Love and desire, / Filled with dead faith, and love / That change is master of --
O Thou, who mightest have given / To all Thy heaven, / But who, instead, didst give / This life we live -- / Who feedest with blood and tears / The hungry years -- / I make one prayer to Thee, / O Great God! grant it me.
Some day when summer shows / Her leaf, her rose, / God, let Thy sinner lie / Under Thy sky, / And feel Thy sun's large grace / Upon his face; / Then grant him this, that he / May not believe in Thee!