FEED ME, ALSO, RIVER GOD,
lest by diminished vitality and abatedvigilance, I become food for crocodiles—for that quicksandof gluttony which is legion. It is there—close at hand—on either sideof me. You remember the Israelites who said in prideand stoutness of heart: “The bricks are fallen down, we willbuild with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, we will change tocedars”? I am not ambitious to dress stones, to renewforts, nor to matchmy value in action, against their ability to catchup with arrested prosperity. I am not likethem, indefatigable, but if you are a god you willnot discriminate against me. Yet—if you may fulfilnone but prayers dressedas gifts in return for your gifts—disregard the request.
lest by diminished vitality and abatedvigilance, I become food for crocodiles—for that quicksandof gluttony which is legion. It is there—close at hand—on either sideof me. You remember the Israelites who said in prideand stoutness of heart: “The bricks are fallen down, we willbuild with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, we will change tocedars”? I am not ambitious to dress stones, to renewforts, nor to matchmy value in action, against their ability to catchup with arrested prosperity. I am not likethem, indefatigable, but if you are a god you willnot discriminate against me. Yet—if you may fulfilnone but prayers dressedas gifts in return for your gifts—disregard the request.
lest by diminished vitality and abatedvigilance, I become food for crocodiles—for that quicksandof gluttony which is legion. It is there—close at hand—on either sideof me. You remember the Israelites who said in pride
and stoutness of heart: “The bricks are fallen down, we willbuild with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, we will change tocedars”? I am not ambitious to dress stones, to renewforts, nor to matchmy value in action, against their ability to catch
up with arrested prosperity. I am not likethem, indefatigable, but if you are a god you willnot discriminate against me. Yet—if you may fulfilnone but prayers dressedas gifts in return for your gifts—disregard the request.