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vailima prayers-第2部分
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front of us any painful duty; strengthen us with the grace of
courage; if any act of mercy; teach us tenderness and patience。
ANOTHER IN TIME OF RAIN
LORD; Thou sendest down rain upon the uncounted millions of the
forest; and givest the trees to drink exceedingly。 We are here
upon this isle a few handfuls of men; and how many myriads upon
myriads of stalwart trees! Teach us the lesson of the trees。 The
sea around us; which this rain recruits; teems with the race of
fish; teach us; Lord; the meaning of the fishes。 Let us see
ourselves for what we are; one out of the countless number of the
clans of thy handiwork。 When we would despair; let us remember
that these also please and serve Thee。
BEFORE A TEMPORARY SEPARATION
TO…DAY we go forth separate; some of us to pleasure; some of us to
worship; some upon duty。 Go with us; our guide and angel; hold
Thou before us in our divided paths the mark of our low calling;
still to be true to what small best we can attain to。 Help us in
that; our maker; the dispenser of events … Thou; of the vast
designs; in which we blindly labour; suffer us to be so far
constant to ourselves and our beloved。
FOR FRIENDS
FOR our absent loved ones we implore thy loving…kindness。 Keep
them in life; keep them in growing honour; and for us; grant that
we remain worthy of their love。 For Christ's sake; let not our
beloved blush for us; nor we for them。 Grant us but that; and
grant us courage to endure lesser ills unshaken; and to accept
death; loss; and disappointment as it were straws upon the tide of
life。
FOR THE FAMILY
AID us; if it be thy will; in our concerns。 Have mercy on this
land and innocent people。 Help them who this day contend in
disappointment with their frailties。 Bless our family; bless our
forest house; bless our island helpers。 Thou who hast made for us
this place of ease and hope; accept and inflame our gratitude; help
us to repay; in service one to another; the debt of thine unmerited
benefits and mercies; so that; when the period of our stewardship
draws to a conclusion; when the windows begin to be darkened; when
the bond of the family is to be loosed; there shall be no
bitterness of remorse in our farewells。
Help us to look back on the long way that Thou hast brought us; on
the long days in which we have been served; not according to our
deserts; but our desires; on the pit and the miry clay; the
blackness of despair; the horror of misconduct; from which our feet
have been plucked out。 For our sins forgiven or prevented; for our
shame unpublished; we bless and thank Thee; O God。 Help us yet
again and ever。 So order events; so strengthen our frailty; as
that day by day we shall come before Thee with this song of
gratitude; and in the end we be dismissed with honour。 In their
weakness and their fear; the vessels of thy handiwork so pray to
Thee; so praise Thee。 Amen。
SUNDAY
WE beseech Thee; Lord; to behold us with favour; folk of many
families and nations gathered together in the peace of this roof;
weak men and women subsisting under the covert of thy patience。 Be
patient still; suffer us yet awhile longer; … with our broken
purposes of good; with our idle endeavours against evil; suffer us
awhile longer to endure; and (if it may be) help us to do better。
Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these
must be taken; brace us to play the man under affliction。 Be with
our friends; be with ourselves。 Go with each of us to rest; if any
awake; temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day
returns; return to us; our sun and comforter; and call us up with
morning faces and with morning hearts … eager to labour … eager to
be happy; if happiness shall be our portion … and if the day be
marked for sorrow; strong to endure it。
We thank Thee and praise Thee; and in the words of him to whom this
day is sacred; close our oblation。
FOR SELF…BLAME
LORD; enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye; and
blind us to the mote that is in our brother's。 Let us feel our
offences with our hands; make them great and bright before us like
the sun; make us eat them and drink them for our diet。 Blind us to
the offences of our beloved; cleanse them from our memories; take
them out of our mouths for ever。 Let all here before Thee carry
and measure with the false balances of love; and be in their own
eyes and in all conjunctures the most guilty。 Help us at the same
time with the grace of courage; that we be none of us cast down
when we sit lamenting amid the ruins of our happiness or our
integrity: touch us with fire from the altar; that we may be up
and doing to rebuild our city: in the name and by the method of
him in whose words of prayer we now conclude。
FOR SELF…FORGETFULNESS
LORD; the creatures of thy hand; thy disinherited children; come
before Thee with their incoherent wishes and regrets: Children we
are; children we shall be; till our mother the earth hath fed upon
our bones。 Accept us; correct us; guide us; thy guilty innocents。
Dry our vain tears; wipe out our vain resentments; help our yet
vainer efforts。 If there be any here; sulking as children will;
deal with and enlighten him。 Make it day about that person; so
that he shall see himself and be ashamed。 Make it heaven about
him; Lord; by the only way to heaven; forgetfulness of self; and
make it day about his neighbours; so that they shall help; not
hinder him。
FOR RENEWAL OF JOY
WE are evil; O God; and help us to see it and amend。 We are good;
and help us to be better。 Look down upon thy servants with a
patient eye; even as Thou sendest sun and rain; look down; call
upon the dry bones; quicken; enliven; recreate in us the soul of
service; the spirit of peace; renew in us the sense of joy。
End of the Project Gutenberg eText Prayers Written at Vailima
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A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson
Scanned and proofed by David Price; email
ccx074@coventry。ac。uk
A Lowden Sabbath Morn
I
THE clinkum…clank o' Sabbath bells
Noo to the hoastin' rookery swells;
Noo faintin' laigh in shady dells;
Sounds far an' near;
An' through the simmer kintry tells
Its tale o' cheer。
II
An' noo; to that melodious play;
A deidly awn the quiet sway …
A' ken their solemn holiday;
Bestial an' human;
The singin' lintie on the brae;
The restin' plou'man。
III
He; mair than a' the lave o' men;
His week completit joys to ken;
Half…dressed; he daunders out an' in;
Perplext wi' leisure;
An' his raxt limbs he'll rax again
Wi' painfu' pleesure。
IV
The steerin' mither strang afit
Noo shoos the bairnies but a bit;
Noo cries them ben; their Sinday shuit
To scart upon them;
Or sweeties in their pouch to pit;
Wi' blessin's on them。
V
The lasses; clean frae tap to taes;
Are busked in crunklin' underclaes;
The gartened hose; the weel…filled stays;
The nakit shift;
A' bleached on bonny greens for days;
An' white's the drift。
VI
An' noo to face the kirkward mile
The guidman's hat o' dacent style;
The blackit shoon; we noon maun fyle
As white's the miller:
A waefu' peety tae; to spile
The warth o' siller。
VII
Our Marg'et; aye sae keen to crack;
Douce…stappin' in the stoury track;
Her emeralt goun a' kiltit back
Frae snawy coats;
White…ankled; leads the kirkward pack
Wi' Dauvit Groats。
VIII
A thocht ahint; in runkled breeks;
A' spiled wi' lyin' by for weeks;
The guidman follows closs; an' cleiks
The sonsie misses;
His sarious face at aince bespeaks
The day that this is。
IX
And aye an' while we nearer draw
To whaur the kirkton lies alaw;
Mair neebours; comin' saft an' slaw
Frae here an' there;
The thicker thrang the gate; an' caw
The stour in air。
X
But hark! the bells frae nearer clang
To rowst the slaw; their sides they bang
An' see! black coats a'ready thrang
The green kirkyaird;
And at the yett; the chestnuts spang
That brocht the laird。
XI
The solemn elders at the plate
Stand drinkin' deep the pride o' state:
The practised hands as gash an' great
As Lords o' Session;
The later named; a wee thing blate
In their expression。
XII
The prentit stanes that mark the deid;
Wi' lengthened lip; the sarious read;
Syne way a moraleesin' heid;
An then an' there
Their hirplin' practice an' their creed
Try hard to square。
XIII
It's here our Merren lang has lain;
A wee bewast the table…stane;
An' yon's the grave o' Sandy Blane;
An' further ower;
The mither's brithers; dacent men!
Lie a' the fower。
XIV
Here the guidman sall bide awee
To dwall amang the deid; to see
Auld faces clear in fancy's e'e;
Belike to hear
Auld voices fa'in saft an' slee
On fancy's ear。
XV
Thus; on the day o' solemn things;
The bell that in the steeple swings
To fauld a scaittered faim'ly rings
Its walcome screed;
An' just a wee thing nearer brings
The quick an' deid。
XVI
But noo the bell is ringin' in;
To tak their places; folk begin;
The minister himsel' will shune
Be up the gate;
Filled fu' wi' clavers about sin
An' man's estate。
XVII
The tunes are up … FRENCH; to be shure;
The faithfu' FRENCH; an' twa…three mair;
The auld prezentor; hoastin' sair;
Wales out the portions;
An' yirks the tune into the air
Wi' queer contortions。
XVIII
Follows the prayer; the readin' next;
An' than the fisslin' for the tex
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