My Quiet Hours
At evening, the labor done,
The frets departed with the sun,
The long night reaching out before,
I find in prayer an open door,
And entering where none intrude,
Rejoice in God’s kind solitude.
At morning, in the eager gray
Aquiver with the coming day,
Strong from the bath of calm repose
To toil with friends or fight with foes,
I pause upon the threshold there,
And win a Helper with a prayer.
At noon, amid the jostling crowd,
The snarling clamor shrill and loud,
Within the throng I find again
That spot undesecrate of men,
And on the ground by thousands trod
Am blessedly alone with God!
by Amos R. Wells: “The Collected Poems of Amos R. Wells” (1921)
Amos Russel Wells was born on 23 December 1862 in Glens Falls, New York, United States of America. He became a writer, an editor, and a college professor. Amos Russel Wells passed on at 70 years of age on 6 March 1933 in Massachusetts, United States of America.
“Evening and morning and at noon will I pray.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Psalms,’ Psalm 55, verse 17
At evening, the labor done,
The frets departed with the sun,
The long night reaching out before,
I find in prayer an open door,
And entering where none intrude,
Rejoice in God’s kind solitude.
At morning, in the eager gray
Aquiver with the coming day,
Strong from the bath of calm repose
To toil with friends or fight with foes,
I pause upon the threshold there,
And win a Helper with a prayer.
At noon, amid the jostling crowd,
The snarling clamor shrill and loud,
Within the throng I find again
That spot undesecrate of men,
And on the ground by thousands trod
Am blessedly alone with God!
by Amos R. Wells: “The Collected Poems of Amos R. Wells” (1921)
Amos Russel Wells was born on 23 December 1862 in Glens Falls, New York, United States of America. He became a writer, an editor, and a college professor. Amos Russel Wells passed on at 70 years of age on 6 March 1933 in Massachusetts, United States of America.
“Evening and morning and at noon will I pray.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Psalms,’ Psalm 55, verse 17