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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341913" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Litany</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FIRST ANTIPHONE.<br>ALL the bright lights of heaven<br>I will make dark over thee;<br>One night shall be as seven<br>That its skirts may cover thee;<br>I will send on thy strong men a sword,<br>On thy remnant a rod;<br>Ye shall know that I am the Lord,<br>Saith the Lord God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SECOND ANTIPHONE.<br>All the bright lights of heaven<br>Thou hast made dark over us;<br>One night has been as seven<br>That its skirt might cover us;<br>Thou hast sent on our strong men a sword,<br>On our remnant a rod;<br>We know that thou art the Lord,<br>O Lord our God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THIRD ANTIPHONE.<br>As the tresses and wings of the wind<br>Are scattered and shaken,<br>I will scatter all them that have sinned,<br>There shall none be taken;<br>As a sower that scattereth seed,<br>So will I scatter them;<br>As one breaketh and shattereth a reed,<br>I will break and shatter them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FOURTH ANTIPHONE.<br>As the wings and the locks of the wind<br>Are scattered and shaken,<br>Thou hast scattered all them that have sinned,<br>There was no man taken;<br>As a sower that scattereth seed,<br>So hast thou scattered us;<br>As one breaketh and shattereth a reed,<br>Thou hast broken and shattered us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FIFTH ANTIPHONE.<br>From all thy lovers that love thee<br>I God will sunder thee;<br>I will make darkness above thee,<br>And thick darkness under thee;<br>Before me goeth a light,<br>Behind me a sword;<br>Shall a remnant find grace in my sight?<br>I am the Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SIXTH ANTIPHONE.<br>From all our lovers that love us<br>Thou God didst sunder us;<br>Thou madest darkness above us,<br>And thick darkness under us;<br>Thou hast kindled thy wrath for a light,<br>And made ready thy sword;<br>Let a remnant find grace in thy sight,<br>We beseech thee, O Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SEVENTH ANTIPHONE.<br>Wilt thou bring fine gold for a payment<br>For sins on this wise?<br>For the glittering of raiment<br>And the shining of eyes,<br>For the painting of faces<br>And the sundering of trust,<br>For the sins of thine high places<br>And delight of thy lust?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For your high things ye shall have lowly,<br>Lamentation for song;<br>For, behold, I God am holy,<br>I the Lord am strong;<br>Ye shall seek me and shall not reach me<br>Till the wine-press be trod;<br>In that hour ye shall turn and beseech me,<br>Saith the Lord God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">EIGHTH ANTIPHONE.<br>Not with fine gold for a payment,<br>But with coin of sighs,<br>But with rending of raiment<br>And with weeping of eyes,<br>But with shame of stricken faces<br>And with strewing of dust,<br>For the sin of stately places<br>And lordship of lust;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With voices of men made lowly,<br>Made empty of song,<br>O Lord God most holy,<br>O God most strong,<br>We reach out hands to reach thee<br>Ere the wine-press be trod;<br>We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee,<br>O Lord our God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">NINTH ANTIPHONE.<br>In that hour thou shalt say to the night,<br>Come down and cover us;<br>To the cloud on thy left and thy right,<br>Be thou spread over us;<br>A snare shall be as thy mother,<br>And a curse thy bride;<br>Thou shalt put her away, and another<br>Shall lie by thy side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou shalt neither rise up by day<br>Nor lie down by night;<br>Would God it were dark! thou shalt say;<br>Would God it were light!<br>And the sight of thine eyes shall be made<br>As the burning of fire;<br>And thy soul shall be sorely afraid<br>For thy soul’s desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye whom your lords loved well,<br>Putting silver and gold on you,<br>The inevitable hell<br>Shall surely take hold on you;<br>Your gold shall be for a token,<br>Your staff for a rod;<br>With the breaking of bands ye are broken,<br>Saith the Lord God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">TENTH ANTIPHONE.<br>In our sorrow we said to the night,<br>Fall down and cover us;<br>To the darkness at left and at right,<br>Be thou shed over us;<br>We had breaking of spirit to mother<br>And cursing to bride;<br>And one was slain, and another<br>Stood up at our side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We could not arise by day,<br>Nor lie down by night;<br>Thy sword was sharp in our way,<br>Thy word in our sight;<br>The delight of our eyelids was made<br>As the burning of fire;<br>And our souls became sorely afraid<br>For our soul’s desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We whom the world loved well,<br>Laying silver and gold on us,<br>The kingdom of death and of hell<br>Riseth up to take hold on us;<br>Our gold is turned to a token,<br>Our staff to a rod;<br>Yet shalt thou bind them up that were broken,<br>O Lord our God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q>
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ALL the bright lights of heaven
I will make dark over thee;
One night shall be as seven
That its skirts may cover thee;
I will send on thy strong men a sword,
On thy remnant a rod;
Ye shall know that I am the Lord,
Saith the Lord ..."></div>
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