Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes

And I replied unto all these things which encompass the door of my flesh, ‘Ye have told me of my god, that ye are not he: tell me something of him’. And they cried all with a great voice, ‘He made us’. My questioning them was my mind’s desire, and their Beauty was their answer.

All my hope on God is founded He does still my trust renew, Me through change and chance he guideth, Only good and only true. God unknown, He alone Calls my heart to be his own.

So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. But I can tell—let truth be told— That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.