Lovely Chance

    O lovely chance, what can I do To give my gratefulness to you？ You rise between myself and me With a wise persistency¹； I would have broken body and soul, But by your grace, still I am whole. Many a thing you did to save me, Many a holy gift you gave me, Music and friends and happy love More than my dearest dreaming of； And now in this wide twilight² hour With earth and heaven a dark, blue flower, In a humble³ mood I bless Your wisdom —— and your waywardness. You brought me even here, where I Live on a hill against the sky And look on mountains and the sea And a thin white moon in the pepper tree.