Introduction
Born: August 14, 1872, Kensington, London, England.
Died: August 22, 1923.
Born: August 14, 1872, Kensington, London, England.
Died: August 22, 1923.
Mary was the daughter of poet Henry Austin Dobson.
She is perhaps best remembered for her trip to Mount Sinai with J. Rendel Harris (her father’s cousin). It was on this trip that the Codex Sinaiticus Syriacus was discovered.
She was also a missionary in India, and served as Warden of the Women’s University Settlement in Bombay (now Mumbai) for 23 years.
Men sing of love and ecstasy
In ringing accents clear and fine,
But I would sing awhile of Thee,
O Love most wondrous, Love divine;
The greatest Love, and Thou the one
By which all loves have glowed and burned;
Alone, supreme, Thou art the sun
Toward which all lesser lights have turned.
Upon Thine ears creation’s lays
And symphonies of heaven fall,
And yet my little feeble praise
Thou hearest sounding through them all;
For Thou hast tuned my faltering heart
By purest joy, by bitterest pain,
And Thou wouldst hear, without my part,
An imperfection in each strain.
O Love, incarnate for my sake,
Through life’s discord I am Thine own;
The sweetest music I can make
Shall be for Thee and Thee alone.
A. Mary R. Dobson (1872–1923)
Songs of the Love Divine