<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Night Litany</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Dieu, purifiez nos cceurs!<br>Purifiez nos coeurs !</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea the lines hast thou laid unto me<br>in pleasant places,<br>And the beauty of this thy Venice<br>hast thou shown unto me<br>Until is its loveliness become unto me<br>a thing of tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God, what great kindness<br>have we done in times past<br>and forgotten it,<br>That thou givest this wonder unto us,<br>O God of waters?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God of the night,<br>What great sorrow<br>Cometh unto us,<br>That thou thus repayest us<br>Before the time of its coming?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God of silence,<br>Purifiez nos cœurs,<br>Purifiez nos cœurs,<br>For we have seen<br>The glory of the shadow of the<br>likeness of thine handmaid,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, the glory of the shadow<br>of thy Beauty hath walked<br>Upon the shadow of the waters<br>In this thy Venice.<br>And before the holiness<br>Of the shadow of thy handmaid<br>Have I hidden mine eyes,<br>O God of waters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God of silence,<br>Purifiez nos cœurs,<br>Purifiez nos cœurs,<br>O God of waters,<br>make clean our hearts within us,<br>For I have seen the<br>Shadow of this thy Venice<br>Floating upon the waters,<br>And thy stars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have seen this thing, out of their far courses<br>Have they seen this thing,<br>O God of waters,<br>Even as are thy stars<br>Silent unto us in their far-coursing,<br>Even so is mine heart<br>become silent within me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Purifiez nos cœurs,<br>O God of the silence,<br>Purifiez nos cœurs,<br>O God of waters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391247" data-title="Night Litany de Ezra Pound" data-description="O Dieu, purifiez nos cceurs! Purifiez nos coeurs ! Yea the lines hast thou laid unto me in pleasant places, And the beauty of this thy Venice hast thou shown unto me Until is its loveliness become unto me a thing of tears. O God, what great kind..."></div> </div> </div>

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