God Give Me Gold [poem by Louisa Lawson]

[Editor: This poem by Louisa Lawson was published in “The Lonely Crossing” and Other Poems (1905).]

God Give Me Gold.

God give me gold that I may test
The blessed sweets of perfect rest,
For I am ill and hotly pressed.
God give me gold!

God give me gold that I may ease
The sorrow that the city sees —
I cannot help the least of these.
God give me gold!

God give me gold that I may buy
The thing for which my soul doth sigh —
For human love, else, Lord, I die.
God give me gold!

Source:
Louisa Lawson, “The Lonely Crossing” and Other Poems, Sydney: Dawn Office, [1905], p. 44

Editor’s notes:
Lord = in a religious context, and capitalized, a reference to God or Jesus

doth = (archaic) does