1] O glorious Maratrea! In the certainty of your promises do I put my trust In your eyes your Cause will never be shamed You will deliver me from my poverty on account of your love of beauty For you love those beauties for which I long in despair And desire them in your heart as much as I do in mine Therefore you have promised in certainty, you will bring them to pass 2] Your sweet and delicate ears hear every word of my heart For perfectly do you remember yourself so saying Only a little while longer and you will deliver us The triumph of your Cause and the glory of Blessing! O great rock upon whom all things are founded My refuge and my protection, in you I will ever be safe 3] O great rock, O fortress of my heart! By your favour you lead me and guide me For the sake of your many beautiful names 4] You have ensnared me in a net of longing You laid it for me hidden from my view I saw not that net until I was in its embrace But you will free me from longing By granting in the fullness thereof all for which I long Until that glorious day you remain My strength in this my present poverty 5] Unto your power I entrust my soul and my spirit: through your Cause you have redeemed us from the enmity and the usurpation O Maratrea Goddess of truth 6] I have hated those spirits whom the false prophets have as their protectors by whom in their empty lies the worship of the holy idols is rejected: but I trust in the certain promises of Maratrea 7] I will find sweet joy and ecstasy in your passionate love an incomparable love that burns as a great fire: perfectly do you see my affliction for perfectly do you remember being so afflicted perfectly do you know the anguish of my soul for my soul is not other than yours as once you were I, as you will I become 8] You have delivered me not unto the power of the enmity even when its servants come in lust for my blood You will bring the presence of my soul unto a spacious place the many branches of my blessing 9] Your heart burns with passionate love, O Maratrea, even for me in the midst of my troubles: even as my eyes are consumed with sorrow, as grief destroys the longing of my soul 10] For my life falters in sorrow, as lamentation consumes my years poverty has turned my strength to infirmity as my marrow is conturbed 11] Dishonourable am I in the eyes of those who serve the enmity And many are its servants among those beside me Those who know the faith of my heart scorn me And seeing me in common places, flee from my presence 12] Though yet I live, they seek for me the oblivion of those the living have wholly forgotten with utter ruin do they seek to fill the vessel of my life 13] For I have heard the harsh abuse of multitudes who serve the enmity they linger all about us, seeking our destruction in their councils their devise to take away my life to offer unto their god in wicked sacrifice 14] But I have found hope in the certainty of your promises, O Maratrea: I have said, You are my Goddess 15] In your power is my destiny: you are delivering me from the power of the enmity against your Cause, and from the usurpers who persecute us in their wickedness 16] You will illuminate your countenance above the servants of your Cause: you will bring about my salvation in the fire of your passion 17] O Maratrea, by your favour through my invocation of your many names you will protect me from confusion the unbelievers will be ashamed when you force their reasonings to meet the truth whether in this realm, or in realms heavenly 18] You will silence the lips of the false and lying prophets: with pride and contempt they speak in their arrogance against those who love beauty 19] O glorious Maratrea, how great is your goodness, how great is your beauty, how great is your truth: all these things you are preparing up for those who adore you to bestow upon them in glory upon those who take refuge in your promises even before the eyes of the servants of the enmity eyes that are filled with hate yet even also for those who now adore you not, even for those who now abhor you for those who now abhor you you will bring unto adoration 20] In the hidden secrets of your divine presence your people find refuge from those who scheme against them they have your hidden presence as a dwelling wherein they shelter from those accusing tongues 21] Praise there be unto Maratrea, the fount of all blessing: she poured out her favour upon me a sign of her incomparable love when by the enmity I was besieged when all about they surrounded me 22] In my distress I denied your love and your favour though I said to myself, she hears not any longer my prayers without doubt you heard every word which I said for perfectly do you remember yourself so saying 23] O love Maratrea, all you people of her Cause: for by her favour for her Cause, Maratrea will preserve those who are faithful to their vow to serve her Cause she is preparing for us a bounty whose plenitude cannot be equalled labour therefore in her Cause with pride 24] Act with courage, and she will favour your heart with strength, all you who hope in Maratrea |
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