Full Joy

Carrie gave me a book entitled A Maiden in Waiting. It is compiled by Crystal Paine and contains various articles from single women about relying entirely on God, contentment and becoming a virtuous maiden. I am not much of a 'poem person' but this was one I could actually interpret. It was written by W.P. Balfern and is entitled Full Joy:

O Sovereign Lord, They Kingly Words
Bring wonderous love to view;
And wouldest Thou have our hearts like Thine,
As full of love, and true?

We ask like children in the dark,
We scarce know what we say;
To us the joy Thou wouldest impart
Seems rightly far away.

We view it as a distant sun,
Whose beams just reach us here;
Forgetting all is near to faith,
While Thou are ever near.

We comme to life's own springing well,
A drop we tast and live;
And speak of this as though 'twere all
The Master has to give.

Lord, raise our fiath to higher joys,
To larger views of Thee;
Oh let us reach the hieghts and depths
Of Love's own mystery!