Tomorrow (August 15) marks the birthday of novelist / poet E. Nesbit …
E. Nesbit is one of the lesser-known influences on C.S. Lewis’s Narnia:
We honor the occasion with five of our favorite poems by her…
FIVE FREE NOVELS
by E. Nesbit
Evening Prayer
E. Nesbit
Found in:
Songs of Love and Empire
(Available as FREE Ebook on the page linked above)
NOT to the terrible God, avenging, bright,
Whose altars struck their roots in flame and blood,
Not to the jealous God, whose merciless might
The infamy of unclean years withstood;
But to the God who lit the evening star,
Who taught the flower to blossom in delight,
Who taught His world what love and worship are
We pray, we two, to-night.
To no vast Presence too immense to love,
To no enthroned King too great to care,
To no strange Spirit human needs above
We bring our little, intimate, heart warm prayer;
But to the God who is a Father too,
The Father who loved and gave His only Son
We pray across the cradle, I and you,
For ours, our little one!
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