[after Psalm 17:6, Isaiah 43:1, Habakkuk 3:18 And Romans 1:6 and 10:13]
I called upon your Name, Lord, and You answered me
with gracious kindness and tenderest courtesy,
an answer received immediately
unto the joy (as Prophet Habakkuk wrote) of my Salvation,
and blessed with this Poetry, however minor, as my vocation.
Starward