| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Non Nobis | | By Henry Cust (1861–1917) |
| | | NOT unto us, O Lord, | |
| Not unto us the rapture of the day, | |
| The peace of night, or love’s divine surprise, | |
| High heart, high speech, high deeds ’mid honouring eyes; | |
| For at Thy word | 5 |
| All these are taken away. | |
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| Not unto us, O Lord: | |
| To us thou givest the scorn, the scourge, the scar, | |
| The ache of life, the loneliness of death, | |
| The insufferable sufficiency of breath; | 10 |
| And with Thy sword | |
| Thou piercest very far. | |
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| Not unto us, O Lord: | |
| Nay, Lord, but unto her be all things given— | |
| May light and life and earth and sky be blasted— | 15 |
| But let not all that wealth of love be wasted: | |
| Let Hell afford | |
| The pavement of her Heaven! | | | | |
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