August 28

The spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought.

WHEN hearts are full of yearning tenderness For the loved absent, whom we cannot reach

By deed or token, gesture or kind speech,

The spirit's true affection to express;

When hearts are full of innermost distress,

And we are doomed to stand inactive by

Watching the soul's or body's agony,

Which human effort helps not to make less—

Then like a cup capacious to contain

The overflowings of the heart, is prayer;

The longing of the soul is satisfied,

The keenest darts of anguish blunted are;

And though we have not ceased to yearn or grieve,

Yet we have learned in patience to abide.

ARCH-

BISHOP

TRENCH

IN SORROW