<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461412" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song V</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Thee, eternal Defender of all creation,<br>I call, frail, commiserate, nowhere secure. <br>Keep me in close watch, and in my each anxiety, <br>Hasten to bring aid to my wretched soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With Thy rod, do but quell the blind flesh<br>So laden with vain, lowly, ill-working lust; <br>For shame it seeks sway o'er its own soul:<br>Fairer if what's to decay serves what's forever!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ye, cov'tous hosts (Lord God, my Defence), <br>Show your heels and take your infamy unending, <br>Ye who deny God's creation the wealth (whence you <br>Were forced) and the praise to thine own Maker.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Bliss, my Praise, let them fast feel shame <br>Who sing me sweetness of other praise, not Thee. <br>What hath man not Thine? Yet who in Thy gifts <br>Be vain, eternal King, Thy gifts would he lose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So happy, so jubilant they who confess<br>That the good be Thine, who seek Thee<br>And adornment unending, who take pains<br>To love Thee alone full-willing, O Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aye, reckon me in that count, kind Father, <br>Whilst here, grant me but mark I'm lowly dust<br>And, unmatched for a tempest's heavy ordeals, <br>May I know as my strengths thy great mercies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still who's content, arrayed yet in mail<br>Of adamant, if war long and hard he endures?<br>So I beg: Thou who in battle art Defender,<br>Tarry not, Peace redeeming, giving unto us Thyself!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mikolaj+Sep+Szarzynski">Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski</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=461412" data-title="Song V de Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski" data-description="To Thee, eternal Defender of all creation, I call, frail, commiserate, nowhere secure. Keep me in close watch, and in my each anxiety, Hasten to bring aid to my wretched soul. With Thy rod, do but quell the blind flesh So laden with vain, lowly..."></div> </div> </div>

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