\nBID a strong ghost stand at the head
\nThat my Michael may sleep sound,
\nNor cry, nor turn in the bed
\nTill his morning meal come round;
\nAnd may departing twilight keep
\nAll dread afar till morning’s back.
\nThat his mother may not lack
\nHer fill of sleep.
\nBid the ghost have sword in fist:
\nSome there are, for I avow
\nSuch devilish things exist,
\nWho have planned his murder, for they know
\nOf some most haughty deed or thought
\nThat waits upon his future days,
\nAnd would through hatred of the bays
\nBring that to nought.
\nThough You can fashion everything
\nFrom nothing every day, and teach
\nThe morning stats to sing,
\nYou have lacked articulate speech
\nTo tell Your simplest want, and known,
\nWailing upon a woman’s knee,
\nAll of that worst ignominy
\nOf flesh and bone;
\nAnd when through all the town there ran
\nThe servants of Your enemy,
\nA woman and a man,
\nUnless the Holy Writings lie,
\nHurried through the smooth and rough
\nAnd through the fertile and waste,
\nprotecting, till the danger past,
\nWith human love. <\/p>\n
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