Showing posts with label William Wordsworth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Wordsworth. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Of Each Newborn Day





Hail, hail the toll of morning’s bell
Our God did not forget
*The innocent brightness
Of a newborn day
Is lovely yet

From century to century
The dark dawn’s spark begets
And *the innocent brightness
Of a newborn day
Is lovely yet

Holy, holy, arise, my love
See what God’s grace hath let
Where *the innocent brightness
Of a newborn day
Is lovely yet

Time cannot dim the love of Him
Whereby its gauge is set
And *the innocent brightness
Of a newborn day
Is lovely yet

Arise, arise, for who can say
How many morns are left
Where *the innocent brightness
Of a newborn day
Is lovely yet

© Janet Martin

Inspired by *this line from a poem by William Wordsworth entitled Intimations of Immortality