"O Gifts of Gifts"

 
  This is a poem at the end of Stepping Heavenward, which is also changed a little when it is the hymn that the writer of Stepping Heavenward wrote, Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss, "O Gifts of Gifts." I thought it to be very beautiful.






    "O Gifts of Gifts!   O Grace of faith!
         My God how can it be
     That  Thou,  Who hast discerning love,
        Shouldst give that love to me?

     How many hearts Thou mightst have had
     More innocent than mine!
     How many souls more worthy far
         Of that sweet touch of  Thine?

     Ah,  Grace! into unlikeliest hearts
         It  is thy boast to come,
     The glory of  Thy  Light to find
        In darkest spots a home.

     Oh,  happy, happy that I am!
         I thou canst be, O faith,
     The treasure that Thou art in life
        What wilt Thou be in death?"