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By thought and pain mind and heart and wrought;
From sin refrain, for life’s so sweet unfraught.
By thought and pain mind and heart and wrought;
From sin refrain, for life’s so sweet unfraught.
‘Twas when I saw the mighty sky Shutting its majestic eye Slowly in a mighty wink. As the icy wind took wing To its hole the mole did sink And the nightingale soon ceased to sing. In a thrust, out of the sky Shot an arm that struck so nigh Faster than a mortal’s eye……
Every man drowned in deep contemplation Perceives the world as part his own creation. Nothing can outrun the clock’s relentless tick, Nor life control what death shall next pick But wit applied can soon buy us an hour To say a prayer, or bequeath our power, And embrace the bright light without a fight. Rejoice,…