What is that to thee? follow thou me

I think I mentioned when I was cleaning out some of my stuff that I found some small cards with gold trim on which I had written such little verses as took my fancy. Well, here is one I came across, that has actually been up on my whiteboard for so long I had ceased to see it, featuring a Christina Rossetti poem. Christina Rossetti’s poetry is such a source of true encouragement to me.

This also shows an example of my archaic handwriting, though it is not normally quite so small or neatly constrained as this (and usually I spell “Rossetti” correctly – for shame!). Lest it is completely indecipherable, I have written out what it actually says below.

“What is that to thee? follow thou me.”

Lie still, my restive heart, lie still:

God’s Word to thee saith, “Wait and bear”.

The good which He appoints is good,

The good which He denies were ill:

Yea, subtle comfort is thy care,

Thy hurt a help not understood.

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Lord, I had chosen another lot,

But then I had not chosen well;

Thy choice and only Thine is good:

No different lot, search heaven or hell,

Had blessed me fully understood;

None other, which Thou orderest not.

Christina Rossetti