Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | II. Prayer and Aspiration | | Prayer | | Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371–1395) |
| | Anonymous translation
O GOD! though sorrow be my fate, | |
| And the world’s hate | |
| For my heart’s faith pursue me, | |
| My peace they cannot take away; | |
| From day to day | 5 |
| Thou dost anew imbue me; | |
| Thou art not far; a little while | |
| Thou hid’st thy face, with brighter smile | |
| Thy father-love to show me. | |
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| Lord, not my will, but thine, be done; | 10 |
| If I sink down | |
| When men to terrors leave me, | |
| Thy father-love still warms my breast; | |
| All ’s for the best; | |
| Shall men have power to grieve me, | 15 |
| When bliss eternal is my goal, | |
| And thou the keeper of my soul, | |
| Who never will deceive me? | |
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| Thou art my shield, as saith the Word. | |
| Christ Jesus, Lord, | 20 |
| Thou standest pitying by me, | |
| And lookest on each grief of mine | |
| And if ’t were thine: | |
| What, then, though foes may try me, | |
| Though thorns be in my path concealed? | 25 |
| World, do thy worst! God is my shield! | |
| And will be ever nigh me. | | | | |
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