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The Empty Bowl

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I held the golden vessel of my soul     And prayed that God would fill it from on high.     Day after day the importuning cry     Grew stronger - grew, a heaven-accusing dole     Because no sacred waters laved my bowl.     'So full the fountain, Lord, wouldst Thou deny     The little needed for a soul's supply?     I ask but this small portion of Thy whole.'     Then from the vast invisible Somewhere,     A voice, as one love-authorised by Him,     Spake, and the tumult of my heart was stilled.     'Who wants the waters must the bowl prepare;     Pour out the self, that chokes it to the brim,     But emptied vessels, from the source are filled.'

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"I held the golden vessel of my soul..."

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