"I know the very words I said,
They bayed like bloodhounds in my head.
'The water's going out to sea
And there's a great moon calling me;
But there's a great sun calls the moon,
And all God's bells will carol soon
For joy and glory, and delight
Of some one coming home to-night.'"
The Everlasting Mercy and the Widow in the Bye Street.
And then came the consciousness that he was "done with sin" forever:
"I knew that I had done with sin,
I knew that Christ had given me birth
To brother all the souls on earth,"
The Everlasting Mercy and the Widow in the Bye Street.
which was followed by two "glories"--the "Glory of the Lighted Mind"
and the "Glory of the Lighted Soul." I think that perhaps in our
preaching on conversion we make too little of the regeneration of the
"mind." Masefield does not miss one whit of a complete regeneration.