Passion of Regret - Picture Palace music/Thorsten Quaeschning.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Thorsten Quaeschning
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Thorsten Quaeschning
[00:00.00]The Disciples
[00:00.00](by Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King)
[00:26.54]WE suffer. Why we suffer,-that is hid
[00:30.93]With Gods foreknowledge in the clouds of Heaven.
[00:35.43]The first book written sends that human cry
[00:40.23]Out of the clear Chaldean pasture-lands
[00:44.23]Down forty centuries; and no answer yet
[00:48.83]Is found, nor will be found, while yet we live
[00:53.33]In limitations of Humanity.
[00:57.63]But yet one thought has often stayed by me
[01:02.13]In the night-watches, which has brought at least
[01:06.63]The patience for the hour, and made the pain
[01:11.23]No more a burden which I groaned to leave,
[01:15.63]But something precious which I feared to lose.
[01:19.93]-How shall I show it, but by parables?
[01:24.43]The sculptor, with his Psyches wings half-hewn
[01:28.93]May close his eyes in weariness, and wake
[01:33.43]To meet the white cold clay of his ideal
[01:37.93]Flushed into beating life, and singing down
[01:42.33]The ways of Paradise. The husbandman
[01:46.83]May leave the golden fruitage of his groves
[01:51.33]Ungarnered, and upon the Tree of Life
[01:55.83]Will find a richer harvest waiting him.
[02:00.23]The soldier dying thinks upon his bride,
[02:04.73]And knows his arms shall never clasp her more,
[02:09.23]Until he first the face of his unborn child
[02:13.73]Behold in heaven: for each and all of life,
[02:18.23]In every phase of action, love, and joy,
[02:22.73]There is fulfilment only otherwhere.-
[02:27.13]But if, impatient, thou let slip thy cross,
[02:31.63]Thou wilt not find it in this world again,
[02:36.13]Nor in another; here, and here alone
[02:40.63]Is given thee to suffer for Gods sake.
[02:45.03]In other worlds we shall more perfectly
[02:49.53]Serve Him and love Him, praise Him, work for Him,
[02:54.03]Grow near and nearer Him with all delight;
[02:58.53]But then we shall not any more be called
[03:03.03]To suffer, which is our appointment here.
[03:07.43]Canst thou not suffer then one hour,-or two?
[03:11.93]If He should call thee from thy cross to-day,
[03:16.43]Saying, It is finished!-that hard cross of thine
[03:20.93]From which thou prayest for deliverance,
[03:25.43]Thinkest thou not some passion of regret
[03:29.83]Would overcome thee? Thou wouldst say, So soon?
[03:34.33]Let me go back, and suffer yet awhile
[03:38.83]More patiently;-I have not yet praised God.
[03:43.33]And He might answer to thee,-Never more.
[03:47.83]All pain is done with. Whensoeer it comes,
[03:52.23]That summons that we look for, it will seem
[03:56.73]Soon, yea too soon. Let us take heed in time
[04:01.23]That God may now be glorified in us;
[04:05.73]And while we suffer, let us set our souls
[04:10.23]To suffer perfectly: since this alone,
[04:14.73]The suffering, which is this worlds special grace,
[04:19.23]May here be perfected and left behind.
[04:23.63]-But in obedience and humility;-
[04:28.13]Waiting on Gods hand, not forestalling it.
[04:32.63]Seek not to snatch presumptuously the palm
[04:37.13]By self-election; poison not thy wine
[04:41.63]With bitter herbs if He has made it sweet;
[04:46.03]Nor rob Gods treasuries because the key
[04:50.53]Is easy to be turned by mortal hands.
[04:55.03]The gifts of birth, death, genius, suffering,
[04:59.53]Are all for His hand only to bestow.
[05:04.03]Receive thy portion, and be satisfied.
[05:08.43]Who crowns himself a king is not the more
[05:12.93]Royal; nor he who mars himself with stripes
[05:17.43]The more partaker of the Cross of Christ.
[05:21.93]But if Himself He come to thee, and stand
[05:26.43]Beside thee, gazing down on thee with eyes
[05:30.93]That smile, and suffer; that will smite thy heart,
[05:35.33]With their own pity, to a passionate peace;
[05:39.83]And reach to thee Himself the Holy Cup
[05:44.33](With all its wreathen stems of passion-flowers
[05:48.83]And quivering sparkles of the ruby stars),
[05:53.33]Pallid and royal, saying Drink with Me
[05:57.83]Wilt thou refuse? Nay, not for Paradise!
[06:02.33]The pale brow will compel thee, the pure hands
[06:06.73]Will minister unto thee; thou shalt take
[06:11.23]Of that communion through the solemn depths
[06:15.73]Of the dark waters of thine agony,
[06:20.23]With heart that praises Him, that yearns to Him
[06:24.73]The closer through that hour. Hold fast His hand,
[06:29.23]Though the nails pierce thine too! take only care
[06:33.63]Lest one drop of the sacramental wine
[06:38.13]Be spilled, of that which ever shall unite
[06:42.63]Thee, soul and body to thy living Lord!
[06:47.13]Therefore gird up thyself, and come, to stand
[06:51.63]Unflinching under the unfaltering hand,
[06:56.13]That waits to prove thee to the uttermost.
[07:00.53]It were not hard to suffer by His hand,
[07:05.03]If thou couldst see His face;-but in the dark!
[07:09.53]That is the one last trial:-be it so.
[07:14.03]Christ was forsaken, so must thou be too:
[07:18.53]How couldst thou suffer but in seeming, else?
[07:22.93]Thou wilt not see the face nor feel the hand,
[07:27.43]Only the cruel crushing of the feet,
[07:31.93]When through the bitter night the Lord comes down
[07:36.43]To tread the winepress.-Not by sight, but faith,
[07:40.93]Endure, endure,-be faithful to the end!