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“κακους δε θνητων εξεφην', οταν τυχη,
προσθεις κατοπτρον, ωστε παρθενος νεα,
χρονος .”
Eurip. Hip. 429.
προσθεις κατοπτρον, ωστε παρθενος νεα,
χρονος .”
Eurip. Hip. 429.
Time holds to me his silent glass,
Wherein myself I view,
As there from sin to sin I pass,
An image sad and true.
Wherein myself I view,
As there from sin to sin I pass,
An image sad and true.
And since that now to manhood grown
I bear no goodly sign,
Hath God's displeasure o'er me gone,
I hasten to decline.
I bear no goodly sign,
Hath God's displeasure o'er me gone,
I hasten to decline.
“We all with open face beholding, as in a glass, the glory
of the Lord, are changed into the same image.”
2 Cor. iii. 18.
But in another glass I scan,
Hiding His heavenly rays,
The image of the Son of Man,
And kindle as I gaze.
Hiding His heavenly rays,
The image of the Son of Man,
And kindle as I gaze.
In deepest sense of my desert
Thus daily let me die,
If so I may but touch the skirt
Of His great charity!
Thus daily let me die,
If so I may but touch the skirt
Of His great charity!
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