Oh Let Me See
( Michelangelo - found here ) Oh let me see You everywhere I go! If mortal beauty sets the soul afire, Your dazzle will show how dim it is; desire for You burns high, as once in heaven’s own air. It’s You alone, my dearest Lord, my prayer appeals to against passion’s futile anguish; only You can give me vision to distinguish what I should think, wish, do, though slack and slow. You tethered me to time, no road-to-bliss way, sentenced, though stooped and faint, to endless ranging, shackled in heavy flesh, remissions few. What can I do to escape from living this way? Your power divine is my one chance of changing. I’ve nothing to fall back on, Lord, but You. ~Michelangelo (translated from the Italian by John Frederick Nims)
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