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(p. 37)
10.
“IRMÃ
LOUISE DA MISERICÓRDIA”
ALAS! I cannot pray, –– my heart within
Burns with mad
conflict, –– love, despair, and sin,
Only
escapes a silent cry
From my
soul’s depth of agony,
Like a little cloud
rising out of the sea,
Out of the restless
surging sea, ––
“O LORD! remember, remember
me!”
Alas! I cannot weep, ––
I have no tears,
They are all dried up
with the woes of years,
And only
that one ceaseless cry,
Through my
heart echoes silently,
Like the evening bell
sounding over the lea, ––
Over the sunless,
pathless lea, ––
“O LORD! remember, remember
me!”
I cannot sleep, –– for
love and restless pain
Throb in my heart, and
madden all my brain;
And so I
wake, and wearied lie
Repeating
still that voiceless cry,
(p. 38)
Entreating, O GOD, in the darkness with Thee,
In the darkness alone
with Thee, ––
“O LORD! remember, remember
me!”
And so the morning
finds me, and I rise
With heavy aching heart
and burning eyes,
Creep to my
work with weary feet,
And still
within my soul repeat,
Like a caged bird that
longs to be free,
Sits alone and pines to
be free, ––
“O LORD! remember, remember me!”
Índice Geral das Seções Índice da Seção Atual Índice da Obra Atual Anterior: 9. A Janela de Oriel Seguinte: 11. A Guerra