«Thy will be done» (with a capital T)
«Thy will be done» (with a capital T)
Though ever on earth and on sea
There be the shadow of thy curse
Daily more terrible and worse
Thy will be done!
«Thy Will be done» (with a capital W)
O Man, though many a woe doth trouble you,
Still you pray on, and beat your heart,
And thank the Tyrant in his nest:
«Thy w[ill] be done».
«Thy will Be done» (with a capital B).
Though more than horrid misery
Break the whole earth and wreck the nations
Man cries on, in vile resignations:
«Thy will be done!»
«Thy will be Done» (with a capital D)
All are (...) and all unfree,
And yet from cottage and from hall
The groaning and the dying call
«Thy will be done!»
«Thy W[ill] Be Done» (all with capital letters),
Although God (...) our mind and fetters,
We roll our eyes and groan uncheerly
We join our hands and half-sincerely
Exclaim from life we pay too dearly:
«Thy will be done!»
Pessoa Inédito. Fernando Pessoa. (Orientação, coordenação e prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes). Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1993.
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