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Thou Art Indeed Just Lord

Justus quidem tu es,

Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen justa loquar ad te: quare via impiorum prosperatur? Thou art indeed just,

Lord, if I contend   With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.   Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? Wert thou my enemy,

O thou my friend,   How wouldst thou worse,

I wonder, than thou dost   Defeat, thwart me?

Oh, the sots and thralls of lust Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend, Sir, life upon thy cause.

See, banks and brakes   Now, leav{`e}d how thick! lac{`e}d they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes   Them; birds build — but not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.   Mine,

O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the lea…

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