Tune: Coelites Plaudant
('Christ the fair glory of the holy angels')
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Lord, if our journey be along river banks
Here contemplate a while, and my give you thanks
For your glories of creation thus displayed
In your beauties arrayed
Locating now a bridge, but gain no entry
For 'tis all boarded up, we may not go, see
On that turning, forbidden that way it be
Not public pathway free
It be a mystical bridge, o'erladen
With tree branches grown, they the bridge o'ershaden
For to set foot there is trespass, penalty
Prosecution shall be
So friends, adhere to Christ, the Life, Truth, and Way
His Way ever leading to eternal day
He the bridge 'tween God and man, the gap has filled
E'en as His Father willed
It shall be life and health, kept from harm, danger
You shall not be lost sheep, nor careless ranger
For Christ, good Shepherd, He leads His people sure
In good paths evermore
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: November 26th, 2019 03:08
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 11.11.11.6. metre. Based on an actual journey and bridge. Tree was cut back on a later trip, to see fields on the other side. Original hymn is from the mid 8th to mid 9th Century.
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ANGELA HERE - Thanks for sharing UNCLE ANDY - Love the hymn a new one to us (well before our time. Love the POEM - The Bridge not Taken ! There are many things in day-to-day life that would deflect us from the WAY that is JESUS - AMEN.
Blessings to YOU & YOUR Magic Mutt
Love in the SPIRIT ANGELA & BRIAN
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Thanks A&B. Uncle Steve here! Erm, yes, one of the 'ancient' hymns from 'Ancient & Modern'. I meth the author in person of course! I thought you would have been around too? heehee.
There are many bridges that we have crossed in our lives and there will be many more taking us into our new life.
Thanks Gold. I suppose we can only cross those bridges when we get to them. I don't cross some literal bridges. If too high, I fear I shall fall in the river below.!
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