In Love With The Lord

A Prayer of Quiet Sequestration

O gift divine of quiet sequestration! Our separations, exercised in prayer and praise... feeding daily on the hope of heaven. Happy in our vow, and fondly cleaves to life, long oneness; but happier far was to our souls, and yours I've seen, a thousand times more beautiful appeared, the sacred tie, in such even balance and painful struggle and deliverance, prayed extinct that echoed to the votive strains. Love to promote and purity and peace, and fancy unreproved… yet may trace faint types of suffering in thy beamed face.