A Prayer For Grace In Death. Second Reading.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Caprese near Arezzo) – 1564 (Rome)
Parmi che spesso.
Ofttimes my great desire doth flatter me
With hope on earth yet many years to stay:
Still Death, the more I love it, day by day
Takes from the life I love so tenderly.
What better time for that dread change could be,
If in our griefs alone to God we pray?
Oh, lead me, Lord, oh, lead me far away
From every thought that lures my soul from Thee!
Yea, if at any hour, through grace of Thine,
The fervent zeal of love and faith that cheer
And fortify the soul, my heart assail.
Since nought achieve these mortal powers of mine,
Plant, like a saint in heaven, that virtue here;
For, lacking Thee, all good must faint and fail.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 126 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
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