WE live by Faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! -- A life that stands as all true lives have stood, Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DESPAIR AND FEAR by EMILY DICKINSON LINCOLN by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 47. THE CARPENTER'S SON by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN SHADOWS: 2 by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 31. HER GIFTS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI FULL OF LIFE NOW by WALT WHITMAN MAKE FRIENDS by ALI IBN ABU TALIB LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 7. MIDSUMMER by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |