Prayers › When you are anxious
When I no more can stir my soul
When I no more can stir my soul to move,
And life is but the ashes of a fire;
When I can but remember that my heart
Once used to live and love, long and aspire, -
Oh, be thou then the first, the one thou art;
Be thou the calling, before all answering love,
And in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
George MacDonald, A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul (1880). Public domain, from Project Gutenberg. See the source edition.