David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms

by Malcolm Guite

We long Therefore to come at last beyond the gates Of time and space, and with the saints to taste That joy for which the whole creation waits. But whilst we wait there is no time to waste In keeping faith with each new generation, And showing them his mercy and his grace.

as though the God who reigns Was one more item in the list of things We catalogue and think we can explain,