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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why dost thou Shade thy Lovely Face?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? Oh, why<br>2 Does that eclipsing hand so long deny<br>3 The sunshine of thy soul-enliv'ning eye?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4 Without that light, what light remains in me?<br>5 Thou art my life, my way, my light; in thee<br>6 I live, I move, and by thy beams I see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7 Thou art mv life; if thou but turn away<br>8 My life's a thousand deaths: thou art my way;<br>9 Without thee, Lord, I travel not, but stray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10 My light thou art; without thy glorious sight<br>11 Mine eyes are darken'd with perpetual night.<br>12 My God, thou art my way, my life, my light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">13 Thou art my way; I wander if thou fly:<br>14 Thou art my light; if hid, how blind am I!<br>15 Thou art my life; if thou withdraw, I die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">16 Mine eyes are blind and dark, I cannot see;<br>17 To whom or whither should my darkness flee,<br>18 But to the light? and who's that light but thee?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">19 My path is lost, my wand'ring steps do stray;<br>20 I cannot safely go, nor safely stay;<br>21 Whom should I seek but thee, my path, my way?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">22 Oh, I am dead: to whom shall I, poor I,<br>23 Repair? to whom shall my sad ashes fly,<br>24 But life? and where is life but in thine eye?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">25 And yet thou turn'st away thy face, and fly'st me;<br>26 And yet I sue for grace, and thou deny'st me;<br>27 Speak, art thou angry, Lord, or only try'st me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">28 Unscreen those heavenly lamps, or tell me why<br>29 Thou shad'st thy face; perhaps thou think'st no eye<br>30 Can view those flames, and not drop down and die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">31 If that be all, shine forth, and draw thee nigher;<br>32 Let me behold and die, for my desire<br>33 Is ph{oe}nix-like to perish in that fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">34 Death-conquer'd Laz'rus was redeem'd by thee;<br>35 If I am dead, Lord, set death's prisoner free;<br>36 Am I more spent, or stink I worse than he?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">37 If my puff'd life be out, give leave to tine<br>38 My shameless snuff at that bright lamp of thine;<br>39 Oh, what's thy light the less for lighting mine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">40 If I have lost my path, great Shepherd, say,<br>41 Shall I still wander in a doubtful way?<br>42 Lord, shall a lamb of Israel's sheep-fold stray?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">43 Thou art the pilgrim's path, the blind man's eye,<br>44 The dead man's life; on thee my hopes rely;<br>45 If thou remove, I err, I grope, I die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">46 Disclose thy sunbeams; close thy wings, and stay;<br>47 See, see how I am blind, and dead, and stray,<br>48 O thou, that art my light, my life, my way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Quarles">Francis Quarles</a><div class=q>
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2 Does that eclipsing hand so long deny
3 The sunshine of thy soul-enliv'ning eye?

4 Without that light, what light remains in me?
5 Thou art my life, my way, my light; in thee
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