Katharine Lee Bates - Thou Knowest lyrics

Thou knowest, Thou Who art the soul of all Selfless endeavor, how I longed to make This deed of mine, adventured for love's sake, Thy deed,--sweet grapes upon a sunny wall, A rose whose petals into fragrance fall, A glint of heaven gla**ed in some lonely lake Amidst the heather and the fringing brake, Our secret,--ah, Thou knowest. Though it call Only for pardon, still to Thee I bring My poor, shamed deed that craved the Beautiful, --To Thee, the Master-Artist, Who alone Wilt of Thy grace see in this graceless thing The pattern marred by the imperfect tool, And know that dim, wronged pattern for Thine Own.