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Poem by Jones Very


Change


Father! there is no change to live with Thee,
Save that in Christ I grow from day to day,
In each new word I hear, each thing I see,
I but rejoicing hasten on the way;
The morning comes with blushes overspread,
And I new-wakened find a morn within;
And in its modest dawn around me shed,
Thou hear'st the prayer and the ascending hymn;
Hour follows hour, the lengthening shades descend,
Yet they could never reach as far as me,
Did not thy love thy kind protection lend,
That I a child might sleep awhile on Thee,
Till to the light restored by gentle sleep
With new-found zeal I might thy precepts keep.



Jones Very


Jones Very's other poems:
  1. Faith
  2. Enoch
  3. The Dead
  4. The New Birth
  5. The Fair Morning


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Algernon Swinburne Change ("But now life's face beholden")
  • George Wither Change ("The voice which I did more esteem")
  • William Howells Change ("SOMETIMES, when after spirited debate")
  • Ella Wilcox Change ("Changed? Yes, I will confess it – I have changed")

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