O lovely chance, what can I do To give my gratefulness to you?
You rise between myself and me With a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul, But by your grace, still I am whole.
Many a thing you did to save me, Many a holy gift you gave me, Music and friends and happy love More than my dearest dreaming of;And now in this wide twilight hour With earth and heaven a dark, blue flower, In a humble mood I bless Your wisdom -- and your waywardness.
You brought me even here, where I
Live on a hill against the sky And look on mountains and the sea And a thin white moon in the pepper tree.
