| Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888. | | | | The Image of God | | By Francisco de Aldana (1537?–1578) |
| | Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O LORD! that seest, from yon starry height, | |
| Centred in one the future and the past, | |
| Fashioned in thine own image, see how fast | |
| The world obscures in me what once was bright! | |
| Eternal Sun! the warmth which thou hast given | 5 |
| To cheer life’s flowery April, fast decays; | |
| Yet, in the hoary winter of my days, | |
| For ever green shall be my trust in Heaven. | |
| Celestial King! O let thy presence pass | |
| Before my spirit, and an image fair | 10 |
| Shall meet that look of mercy from on high, | |
| As the reflected image in a glass | |
| Doth meet the look of him who seeks it there, | |
| And owes its being to the gazer’s eye. | | | | |
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