DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO

AALL else for use, one only for desire;Thanksgiving for the good, but thirst for Thee:Up from the best, whereof no man need tire,Impel thou me.Delight is menace, if Thou brood not by,Power a quicksand, Fame a gathering jeer.Oft as the morn, (though none of earth denyThese three are dear,)Wash me of them, that I may be renewed,Nor wall in clay mine agonies and joys:O close my hand upon Beatitude!Not on her toys.

AALL else for use, one only for desire;Thanksgiving for the good, but thirst for Thee:Up from the best, whereof no man need tire,Impel thou me.Delight is menace, if Thou brood not by,Power a quicksand, Fame a gathering jeer.Oft as the morn, (though none of earth denyThese three are dear,)Wash me of them, that I may be renewed,Nor wall in clay mine agonies and joys:O close my hand upon Beatitude!Not on her toys.

AALL else for use, one only for desire;Thanksgiving for the good, but thirst for Thee:Up from the best, whereof no man need tire,Impel thou me.

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ALL else for use, one only for desire;

Thanksgiving for the good, but thirst for Thee:

Up from the best, whereof no man need tire,

Impel thou me.

Delight is menace, if Thou brood not by,Power a quicksand, Fame a gathering jeer.Oft as the morn, (though none of earth denyThese three are dear,)

Delight is menace, if Thou brood not by,

Power a quicksand, Fame a gathering jeer.

Oft as the morn, (though none of earth deny

These three are dear,)

Wash me of them, that I may be renewed,Nor wall in clay mine agonies and joys:O close my hand upon Beatitude!Not on her toys.

Wash me of them, that I may be renewed,

Nor wall in clay mine agonies and joys:

O close my hand upon Beatitude!

Not on her toys.


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