nearer

Take from me leisure, all familiar places,

Take all the lovely things of earth and air,

Take from me books; take all my precious faces;

Take words melodious, and their songful linking;

Take scents, and sounds, and all their outsides fair;

Draw nearer, taking, and to my sober thinking,

Thou bring'st them nearer all, and ready to my thinking.

----George MacDonald

Done