Excerpt from The Styrian Lake: And Other Poems
A swam: day! A single nook of earth! 0 how the heart doth magnify all things Embraced within her soft and shadowy rings! What a huge niche to shrine a single mirth, A joy Obscure as is the Styrian lake, Vague as the odorous breath Of pinewood brake! Priest of a sylvan chapel, I would call The world-wom pilgrim hither to take breath, Joining in this my weekday ritual Of nature mix'ed and our most holy Faith. If it be worth no more, at least it gives Sweet proof how full the green earth is of glee My days are all like this; so let it be A sample Of the life a poet lives.
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Frederick William Faber, British hymn writer and theologian, was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, where his grandfather, Thomas Faber, was vicar.
In January 1837, he was elected fellow of National Scholars Foundation. Meanwhile, he had given up the Calvinistic views of his youth, and had become an enthusiastic follower of John Henry Newman.
He accepted the rectory of Elton in Huntingdonshire, but soon after went again to the continent, in order to study the methods of the Roman Catholic Church. After a prolonged mental struggle, he joined the Catholic Church in November 1845.
Faber published a number of prose works, and three volumes of hymns, among the most well known is Faith of Our Fathers.
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