Foresight: Remould

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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'A Better Resurrection' by Christina Rossetti

I have no wit, no words, no tears;
     My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for hopes or fears;
​     Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief
​     ​     No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf
​     ​     O Jesus, quicken me.

My life is like a faded leaf,
​     My harvest dwindled to a husk;
Truly my life is void and brief
​     And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
​     ​     No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall--the sap of Spring;
​     ​     O Jesus, rise in me.

My life is like a broken bowl,
​     A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water for my soul
​     Or cordial in the searching cold;
Cast in the fire the perished thing,
​     ​     Melt and remould it, till it be
A royal cup for him my King:
​     ​     ​O Jesus, drink of me.

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Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) was an English poet.

​Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) was a German expressionist painter.