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