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Charles Robert Anon

«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!»

3-4-1906?

Pessoa Inédito. Fernando Pessoa. (Orientação, coordenação e prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes). Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1993.

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