by Thomas Edward Brown (1830-97)
(quoted by Oswald Chambers in Baffled to Fight Better, a study on the book of Job)
If thou couldst empty all thyself of self, Like to a shell dishabited, Then might He find thee on the Ocean shelf, And say—"This is not dead,"-- And fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou, And hast such shrewd activity, That, when He comes, He says :—"This is enow Unto itself—’Twere better let it be: It is so small and full, there is no room for Me." |