Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VI. Human Experience | | The Master’s Touch | | Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) |
| | | IN the still air the music lies unheard; | |
| In the rough marble beauty hides unseen: | |
| To make the music and the beauty, needs | |
| The master’s touch, the sculptor’s chisel keen. | |
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| Great Master, touch us with thy skilful hand; | 5 |
| Let not the music that is in us die! | |
| Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor let, | |
| Hidden and lost, thy form within us lie! | |
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| Spare not the stroke! do with us as thou wilt! | |
| Let there be naught unfinished, broken, marred; | 10 |
| Complete thy purpose, that we may become | |
| Thy perfect image, thou our God and Lord! | | | | |
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