Tune: St Bees
('Hark, my soul, it is the Lord')
1 Peter 3 v.15-17
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Sanctify, do set apart
the Lord God here in your heart
Be ready always to give
Answer of the way you live
An answer to every one
Who asks you of Christ the Son
What the reason of the hope
In you, how through life you cope
Reply with meekness and fear
Godly awe, not terror here
And having a good conscience
You the Lord's presence do sense
That where they do speak evil
Of you, and false witness tell
As if evildoers you
Were, so they do accuse you
Seeking to distractions make
That you slippery paths take
They do sleight your good conduct
In Christ, truth they do deduct* (*ignore, disbelieve)
For it better if the will
Of God be so that you ill-
Suffer for well-doing than
For evil doing to man* (*mankind)
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: October 29th, 2021 02:08
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 7.7.7.7. metre, with an apt Autumnal video, I think. Now footnotes! Verse 2 - not a lot rhymes with 'hope', but 'cope' does in this case. Verse 6 - lines 2 and 3 carry over: 'ill-suffer'.
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Comments4
I think you did good on the rhyming & non rhyming fronts today Mr. O ... maybe not a personal record but certainly one to put in your CD ... 🙂
Thanks N.
It made me think of wholesome bread, wheat - some advert from ages ago. You getting wholesome diet? You getting your oats? Oops, I didn't mean......... swoon!
Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold. Some of me titles gives Teddy trouble with her teef (teeth). She can't alwaysh shay them - nor can I. Is it cos we not got our teef in, or cos we been at the gin?! lol.
Call for me the disbeliever option (penultimate verse last line). But i only disbelieve the simple stories in the bible.... there has to be a creator of one type or another.... should we worship the bringer of famine though... your OMNIPOTENT god?
Thanks dusk.
It sounds like a 'cop-out' - the reply that 'a lot of it is man's own doing', and others suffer directly or indirectly from certain people not distributing food equally. But it is so sometimes, I think.
I don't sense that you're a complete disbeliever, whether you 'deduct' some truth or not.
Good one orchi…loved these words of yours
“Sanctify, do set apart
the Lord God here in your heart
Be ready always to give
Answer of the way you live”
Thanks S. Not my words originally, but St Peter!
Ohhh
Then thanks for bringing it in light to me
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