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domingo, 23 de agosto de 2020

Lift me, my Lord

 Lift me, my Lord


by Fray Miguel de Guevara, Mexican friar and poet (1585-1646)



Lift me, my Lord, for I am fallen
With no love, nor fright, nor faith, nor apprehension
I want to lift myself but remain idle
I myself wish it so, but I prevent it.

I am, being just one, in two divided,
at one time dead and alive, sad and contented;
that, what I myself can do, that I cannot;
I flee the vice but I'm in it submerged.

So obstinate am I in my fatuity,
that the fear of being lost or losing You
never from my wrong path ever deviates me.

May Your power and goodness swerve my fortune
that making amends I see in others daily
but in me, novel desires to offend You.