GOD’S LOVE, NOT HIS FEAR
We’re formed quite free as God wants man
to be so happy and so pleased.
That’s why our God came down to earth
to show how dear is man to Him.

The Lord had loved the human beings
and found their sins could build a wall
between mankind and upper joy.
He came as Christ to wreck that block.

He suffered much as His deep love
was such a cross with nails and spears.
He made Himself humble and weak;
He lowered self and raised man grand.

Then man will never feel servile
and fear his God and pray like slaves.
His prayers will be joyful acts
as love will drive him more to chant.
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CHRIST IS OUR EXAMPLE.
If you want to know your God,
you must look at Jesus Christ.
He is God Who made Himself
seen by man to know the Lord.

Like us He likes to be loved
by the people whom He helps
and be spoken with and asked
for forgiveness in a prayer.

We would like to be so good,
so we read His sublime book,
trying hard to imitate
what He did to feel so great.

If we act without being sure,
we would ask if Jesus would
do like that or would abstain.
Then we follow His conduct.
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Do I KNOW MY TASK?

My Lord, I want to please Your heart
and do what You have sent me for.
You sent Your Son to die for man
and wipe out all our ***** sins.

He dragged His cross and died instead
of sacrificing sheep and lambs.
He knew the reason why He paid
the dearest price as it’s His charge.

Is there such love under the sun
or only just above the skies?
He did the awesome task He had.
Where am I from what He fulfilled?

Am I aware of my own task
or merely heed my wealth and fun?
Have I just thought what I will say
when God will ask, “What’s your account?”
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CHRIST IS SO TENDER HEARTED.
No one has asked man before birth
if he desires man to be.
That means if he has not a choice,
his life will be an endless glee.

We know that Christ has died for man
to save him from his painful sins.
That makes man’s heart so full of cheer
if he kens Christ’s warmth and His strength.

How great’s to have Jesus to stand
in place of parents and their love.
He has the endless zeal and care,
and He’s the guardian of man’s fate.

But if man tends to trace the flesh,
refusing Christ most tender heart,
He pines to make him change his mind
as He can’t see His kids distressed.
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NO HOPE FOR SURVIVAL?
I want to ask those who believe
if life is none, but flesh and bone,
can mankind be happy to live
and what does he aspire to own?

The other creatures have no mind;
they have the instinct to enjoy.
They eat what can make them feel glad
and **** what can their lives destroy.

He can’t aspire just for food;
he has a mind to yearn for more.
The pleasure that ends in the ground
can never be his ship aimed shore.

He looks for *** in all its forms
or seeks the meaning of what’s strange,
but nothing can be his sweet home
and madness will be his last stage.
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CHRIST, THE WORD OF GOD
So much the word stands for the man
and it can make him strong or weak.
It can build towers of great heights
or wreck a bridge where hope exists.

The word is what a person is.
It is the gist of all his soul.
It can express what gives him joy
or can his cheerfulness destroy.

A word is what can raise morale
when heard from one who is so dear.
It can make children mighty men
who bring the world what great men yield.

The Word of God is our Lord,
Who has performed His Father’s will
and made a heaven from the earth
by living in the hearts of all.
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ONLY JESUS HAS THESE GIFTS.
A man may love a girl to reach a goal.
It is so precious as it calms his dreams.
A goal that makes him cool, emotions climb
to reach where angels can construct their home.

Why do we find refuge in our Lord?
We find in Him the hope that can reduce
a sense in us that shows we are so weak;
we need what children do, those guarding two.

Who can supply with nerves when we feel death
is able to uproot mankind from life
and plant us in a cave so full of gloom
where none to speak or say a soothing word?

It’s not just fear, but we love parents dear
for their kind words and kisses of great bliss.
Just Jesus can afford this needed love
which none will yield except His cross and words.
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YOU ARE OUR FULL DELIGHT.
What is elation but to feel that Christ
is living in your house, and you He shares
your daily life and love to your household
and makes you strong to feel that none gives fear.

You feel you have attained all what you want.
All what you have to do gets sweet and great.
As long as Christ is near, all will be dear
if only he will stay just in our sight.

We’ve got Whose look gives us the trust we need
to feel that life is joy with such a Friend.
All will be fine with me, my wife and kids
as we have gained the sense of being with God.

How great is our Lord; He makes us see
all who are in the house and all around
are living such a faith that makes us feel
we’re born to live what is the full delight.
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CAN THIS EARN YOUR SMILE, LORD?
My Lord, Your love has reached such an extreme.
I feel the greatness of Your noble ways.
You came to earth to die and save mankind
and wash the sins they have, which aren’t Your own.

I know that love can reach such high extent,
but where is That Who is on such a throne,
Who leaves his scepter and descends to earth
and dies in such a way by hands He loves.

You came and died just as a sacrifice
and those You loved prepared Your painful cross.
Just ere Your death, You asked Your Father dear,
“Forgive them, Lord; they don’t know what they’ve done.”

Where am I, Lord, from such heroic acts?
I’m weak but I still say, “I love You, Christ.
I know my love is great, and want You pleased.
I don’t ken what to do to make You smile.
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CAN THIS DREAM COME TRUE?
My Lord, I know that I’m obsessed
with some emotions that are deep.
I love You, Lord, and I’m quite sure
Your love will give me lots of strength.

This strength can give me perfect rest
that grants me trust to speak with You.
You speak with some or give a hint.
Please, let me be one of those few.

My life depends on just a word.
It will be full of glee and joy.
Don’t leave me waiting and not sure.
I know You are so meek and kind.

I’ll be so glad and full of grace
to have You always close to me.
I’d be Your slave and proudest one
if You accept my hoped request.
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FAITH, THE UNSEEN DAWN
The way true faith is drawn must be well seen
before you do what Jesus wants from man.
We should be sure that faith is quite abstract
resembling what the superstition’s like.

But each is what the other will condemn.
Where are the acts of Satans from the saints?
The saints are like the snow that’s pure and white
while Satans’ snares are in a place too dark.

Give us the hearts that that Jesus like in kids.
There we can look for faith that children have
in parents who are there, and they would stick
so close to safety which has endless love.

What are you faith but that cool dawn of light
that has the softness which the eyes would crave
to absorb what they can from early morn
and give to life when it gets too obscure.
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SOUL, BUT ALSO BODY
The saints obtained the grace that made
their souls so filled with holy faith
to live a life quite full of rest
and shining moons to fill their nights.

They were so cheerful as they lived
some bliss that they would find above.
They got sure that life would not end
and they would move from joy to grace.

That made them glad, but had a price.
that would depend on their steel force.
Could they accept to die so soon
on hurting cross or in hot oil?

That would depend on earthly strength.
Did they have what the Lord had owned.
He held His cross, but could they hold
a painful death in boiling oil?

That would count on what they could bear
with their flesh muscles and their will.
If they'd been weak, they would have failed
as faith would fail for lack of might.
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DON'T SEEK JUST MY GLORY!
The door is knocked. Who can He be?
Can you imagine He's the Lord?
If you expect the Lord  Himself,
you'll be surprised and really shocked.

A lot of times you've heard Him say,
"I am the poor, l am the weak.
I am whose pain is kept inside,
but my crushed heart is shedding tears.

"Don't you remember when l walked
along the way where they transfixed
My bleeding body on the cross?
I was like who knocks at your door.

"I stand with him from all My heights
as in his need l live with him.
That who does not feel Our wounds,
I won't call on him in My cheers."
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YOU'RE MY HOPE AND LOVE.
A light has shone inside my heart.
I've loved it much and knelt to it
as it has given me a sight
I love to see that it exists.

It makes me think about the source
and feel so glad it's from the Lord.
His worth is high in my poor core
as He's become my only hope.

I've found Jesus in daily life
in those who suffer and keep quiet.
Despite all that they show their smile
lest those they love will be disturbed.

He's changed the earth's old attire
and dressed it with what is divine.
He's made His heaven start from here
to make us soothed with endless bliss.
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YOUR WORD CAN BE MY GUIDE.
I am not writing just to gain.
the honour that l have the brain
that can indite some rhythmic lines
that you will like and praise my name.

I know you have the head that thinks.
You go along the way l pass.
It's full of hardships and complaints.
Just look at your most recent lines.

I like to join your aims with mine
and read a word from your smart mind.
You are supposed to have some thoughts.
I will be pleased if lots are wise.

I don't compete with you to chant
what can produce a better lay.
I look at what you write to find
what makes me have a content heart.
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DOES GOD SEND TO ETERNAL FIRE?
That who loves will get so feeble
though he is a mighty giant.
Those he loves might be mere weaklings.
They're for him the strongest power.

Mothers never hurt their babies
even if they cause them torments.
They endure their treatment gladly,
and they can't disturb their rapture.

Christ, Who is sublime perfection,
came to sacrifice His passion
to confer on little enfants
greatest joy to heal their torture.

He endured their spite and hatred
and did not request reprisal.
He just asked for full forgiveness
as they did not know their purpose.
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HELP TO BE HELPED!
People are opposed to people.
Don't they perceive their own failure?
All of them are poorest creatures.
Each can see how much he suffers.

They advance from snags to harder
frightened by their horried voyage
weeping and expecting others
are successful, but are liars.

Help your brother; he's in trouble,
but you feel just what you go through.
Sympathize, and give him rescue.
All of us have just one Father.

Don't await his loss with laughter
or create a snare to trap him.
It's enough the hardship he has.
Stand with him, your Lord will help you.
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PEOPLE OF LITTLE CARE
The truth of life asks man to strain
to grasp its words which are too blurred.
Though man is prompt to waste his time,
he gives it just a little while.

Where are the clouds that passed the sky
in previous years and left no marks?
Did they deserve to photograph
and keep their shapes in weeping eyes?

Are people passing just like them
at times they're tinted by the sun,
but often left to get too dark
and make the earth's noon like night?

Does not the truth of life deserve
to be more cared for by  the clouds
to find in it a better way
and make dry land have wetter days?
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THE WISE CHOICE
Mary, you're a sublime woman.
Your sacrifice is not little.
You've agreed to be a mother
through a miracle from heaven.

Life is full of doubtful people,
but your faith has endless power
that can see the divine matters
and not care about the human.

What can people give a person
save what can assure his presence
on the earth which is a period
that elapses just like seconds?

You have chosen what has made you
lead all mankind to require
inner comfort which is endless
and escape from boundless torture.
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CHRISTMAS
So great is life to have such God,
Who's all the goodness when it's full.
He is the supreme of what's good,
what is quite perfect and sublime.

We lack perfection on the earth
and always ask to meet with it
to give us power and delight.
He showed Himself to us as man.

We've felt surprised just from the start,
at His birth, early life and mind.
His love astonished who saw Him
present His blood and heart as food.

How don't we celebrate the birth
of that ideal love Who died
to save who killed Him while He smiled
as He loves us to be all saved?
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HIS WAY IS TOO HARD.
How can you read about His deeds
and stay quite neutral in your love?
He had great passion on the weak
and saved them from the senseless hearts.

He saved Magdalene from the stones;
they'd have no pity on her head.
They moved like insects in their hands
to bleed her skin and that of Christ.

He was not frightened by their flint.
Can l behave just as He did
or hurry to hide in my house
and think of self a saint in creeds?

He loved us much and wept man's fate.
We dressed Him with a crown of thorns.
He said, " Forgive them," and we said,
" We got rid of whose way is hard."
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DEARER THAN SELF
How can man begin true love
if he knows that he will die?
He's involved in deepest sense
which controls his tender heart.

How can one connect himself
with a person and then goes,
leaving her and going far
with no hope to meet again?

Man is soft and can't depart
neglecting whom he adores.
There's no meaning for his life
if he starts but can't remain.

Love exists to stay alive,
or it burns where it resides.
Only heaven makes us sure
man won't suffer after death.
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ARE PEOPLE EQUAL?
Where are the people who see life
is full of charm that's crime to waste?
There is something hidden somewhere
that makes a person satisfied.

But where is that most obscure gem
and how can we advance to it?
So few can know. It's well concealed,
but it will cheer who finds that wealth.

The jewel's your effect on men,
and making them so pleased with selves.
Look for this target that quite few
can find and practise on mankind.

A lot of people are humane;
they can achieve what makes them stars.
Be that who've helped them; God tells you,
"You are great, son; l'll give you more."
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THEY AREN'T INFERIOR.
The days that passed attract our sighs.
They bring some tears that fill our eyes.
The folk who lived in those past days
were great at what they used to say.

They were so perfect in their deeds,
so full of wisdom and of wit.
They were so kind and full of might
and able to create that past.

We speak for long about their acts
as we have missed their lovely sight.
We don't compare with open mind
them with those who are living now.

Why don't we look at who are near
and see their goodness and their charm.
They are so great but have one fault:
they are quite close and still nearby.
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BEWARE WHAT YOU CHOOSE!
Change the danger into welfare,
where what's sin will get a virtue
as the face of Christ will tell you
when you start to see His brilliance.

Sin can spread the views of horror
in your heart and tint its darkness,
where the night can hide the devils
who can cause you lots of despair.

When you seek what's dark and gloomy,
Satans give all what can darken.
But you turn your darkened vision,
and life's stars will start to twinkle.

Then, you see the face of Jesus
smiling, giving what is charming.
It's not odd as Christ, the Maker
of the earth, has made what raptures.
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THUS I'M ASKED TO PRAY.
You want to pray, go in your room
and close your door to be with Whom
your mind and heart trust and adore
and you both love to sit alone.

You get so glad as you can feel
your heart will be with that great Lord,
Who's made all people dear to Him
and He exists in every soul.

You speak with Him, which is your bliss
as what He says is complete charm.
His calming words give you great cheer
that makes you live your care free life.

Your prayer gets your mighty wings
that lift you up to touch the clouds.
You feel how great it is to pray
but urging duties stop that glee.
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THE MAN YOU'LL CERTAINLY LOVE
I see in Christ a man so kind
and on the cross a thief observed,
"We've done a lot of shameful acts;
that man has none that calls for shame."

One of the thieves in despair said,
"If you're the Christ, why don't You save
Yourself and us from this harsh fate."
That's what a normal man would want.

Christ did not ask the Lord for help
to **** all those who caused Him pain.
If He'd been someone else, He would
have asked to **** those heartless foes.

He asked His Father with last breath
to forgive those who brought Him death
as they did not perceive their guilt.
That's how He shunned Himself self-blame.
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SACRIFICE AND SYMPATHY
He was the Man who gained the souls
in every aspect of His life.
His foes were bigots and they wished
to **** Him and to please their God.

When Christ revived the dead, all felt
their greatest grief was changed to glee,
and people would attach to Him;
He should be killed with those who raised.

He did not fear what would occur
and cured the blind an raised the dead.
He loved to dry the tears and cool
the burning hearts that needed rest.

He knew the cross would wait for Him.
He kissed it as it cheered who wept.
Where are we from that sublime Man
Who died so that He would bring joy.
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ONE WORD OF TRUE DESIRE
On His right, the thief was hopeless,
but his faith in Christ was perfect.
He was stunned when earthquakes happened
and the clouds poured down their buckets.

He repented his corruption,
and he said, "My Lord forgive me
and accept me in Your heaven.
You're the Lord, Whom l believe in."

Jesus said, "You'll have your comfort
in the upper land of calmness.
Passion showed your good behaviour.
Your desire cleans your evil."

Having shown your full intention
to be one of my believers
is enough for your acquital
and accepting your repentance.
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REAL STRENGTH IS LENIENT.
Strength, you are a sublime feeling
that surprises thoughtful people.
When a person is so brawny,
he will have the kindest nature.

Power makes a giant pity
weakest creatures and forgive them.
He will cry despite his power
as revenge for him is painful.

Nothing makes the strongest heroes
surrender except their passion.
They will fear their severe sorrow
to endow them lots of torment.

When the hit is truly hurting,
you should know that its performer
is a weakling and a coward
and he strikes for his survival.
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WORK IS THE FATHER OF JOY.
What gives the cheerfulness of heart
except you, work, that my strength dare,
on that most thoughtful and dear verse
that could steal all my greatest care.

I started writing day and night,
but none of value could appear,
yet l was certain that my work
would give results my heart would cheer.

My labour was not gauged by wealth
but by expecting a surprise.
It was too late, but l was sure
that something would abruptly rise.

No jewels would confer a sign
but work would make me shun wrong deeds.
I kept on working, now l find
a sort of joy my feeling needs.
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ONLY THERE?
Where are those people whom l love,
who made my life so full of joy?
I looked for them in their past sites
but could not find them sitting there.

They were so kind to us as kids
and gave us then what could us please.
Despite all that they were so cruel
when they departed leaving all.

I loved to sit with their dear friends
to hear the stories that could well
the tears that made me feel ashamed
but pleased my heart that urged for more.

I asked those friends where l could look
to have reminders of those dears.
They said nowhere except your heart
whose tears will give you great delight.
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CAN DIRT REPLACE PURITY?
Man is moving from the spirit
to the body and its pleasure.
He is facing lots of changes
from emotions to what's *****.

Love is used in lots of stories;
man admires all their features.
He adores those faithful figures
that remain honest forever.

He esteems who have composed them
saying how decent and happy
they are to indite such dramas
which are now the charm for readers.

How can dirt be brave and and mighty
to involve itsef in rapture
changing what was high and honest
into what is so disgusting?
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THE COY LITTLE GIRL
Come to me my little beauty;
coyness has increased my passion
for the gifts that God would endow
to those who are puerile hearted.

It is found in little children
and those who are saintly chosen
who are pleased with all their actions
as their land is turned to heaven.

Little child, you bring back to me
early time that was so precious
when ambition was for chocolate
and the tender kiss of mother.

This is how the Lord creates us,
pure and white so full of calmness.
Why do we neglect what's peaceful
and resort to what can burn us?
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WHOSE MISTAKE?
My eyes have asked a lttle boy
who wept silently by a wall
why he is hiding secret tears
that let those he loves see his grief?

They kindly ask about the cause
and give him some consoling words.
He'll feel all right, and it will pass
with smiles that give the sweet repose.

His eyes rejoin, it's his mistake.
His marks at school are bad and those
he loves expect the best from him.
His hardest work give no rejoice.

He works so hard, not to be proud,
but please those dear who are around.
He loves them  much and want them glad
when they perceive their son is grand.
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TO THOSE WHO CARE
Dearest poets, think so deeply.
Is this life a serious question
or are we mere passing figures
like a cat or thoughtful monkeys.

I address some people who are
top in thinking and emotions
who can differ what is blather
from what's thoughtful and eternal.

It's not guiltless to destroy man
in the arms of sinful people
as their pleasure is destruction
and eternal hell of torture.

Have you got opposing reasons?
You may say that man is nothing.
Since to dust his way is leading,
let him grasp each passing second.
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HONOURED LOVE
When love is true you can't keep it away from heart.
It gets the tune that gives a lot of joy to life.
You find yourself required to see it grow and bloom
and make the earth a step to build an endless life.

You do all what you can to see your dear rejoice.
You pray for dawn to be so gentle in its morn,
to touch your dear with rays that make her love her days
and see her life so sweet, so full of great delight.

At dusk and after that, you turn the moon so bright
so that her way gets clear and she likes her night-walk.
Her sleep will get so cool with none to peep at her
save that high-hanging lamp that brings her happy sights.

No *** can be true love in value and esteem
except when man can build what can remain and last.
Disgust and dirt can bring what soon will pass away.
What can remain is what the lasting souls construct.
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THE CHOICE
Your hands can gather quite a lot of gold,
but does your heart accept what you have robbed?
Your clever muse can write a lot of verse
but don't you fear it's effect on the crowd?

Your thoughts can bring some embers from deep hell
and paint their pictures to some eager eyes,
but that would spoil their pure hearts and their souls
and bring you blame for such most serious crimes.

It's easy to cheat those who trust your skills
and are so quickly lost in your dark maze
but when they wake up from their nasty dreams,
they hate you more than you can recognize.

I'd love to be so poor, and beg my food
and lose my money and my precious fame,
but have a tranquil mind that hasn't hurt
or pushed someone towards the pit of flame.
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CAN LOVE BE ANSWERED BY DUTY?
You are my freedom from myself.
You want me free and void of care
as when l seek to keep the laws,
I won't be of Your light aware.

Your precious rays inside my heart
will clarify Your precious love.
How can't l see myself so grand?
You've died for me my life to save.

Few mums and dads can do Your deed.
They get so great in books and tales.
Deep love can bear all kinds of pain
so that the loved one never fails.

You've shown me, Christ, the place l have
in Your soft heart and You're my God.
My answer can't come through the rules,
but love with love must be exchanged.
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BETWEEN DESPAIR AND JOY
I've lived the feeling of despair,
but is it bliss or it brings hell?
Despair can sometimes tell the truth.
The world has none of what is ruth.

When we know that; we doubt the world
with its importance and look in,
asking the soul for some support,
and trusting what has none to end.

We choose the Lord to make us bold
and help us see what will extend
to endless life when hair won't dare
to tell us it will change its shade.

The Lord will be the guide of all
and show us what will make us soar
through space that has nothing to bound,
exactly like our joyful souls.
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THE UNFAILING AXIS
We know that man is weak and dazed
and eazily charmed by *** and gold.
Not all who say they have deep faith
are forged by that most purging flame.

A strong axis can make a wheel
well-fixed and fit to have its role,
but wheels can differ in their stuff
and each will show what it is worth.

The clergymen are human beings
who have devotion and their flaws.
They are like us and have mistakes,
but those who're good can do a lot.

The Lord gives man what can produce,
the torch which gives a perfect flame.
It will set right what darkness spoils
and fill the soul with sublime warmth.
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WHERE ARE THOSE PAST BELIEVERS?
I'm so hurt to see some Christians
are like those who mock my belief,
or conceited nonbelievers
seeking manias for strange conducts.

Christian faith could make old kingdoms
create their most splendid progress,
changing Europe to great countries
that could shine the torch of knowledge.

Where are we now from those people?
Europe's striding quickly backwards,
weakened by the gays that made it
countries of the old and white-haired.

Can those gays have their own children
and supply those who lift their banners?
Or they'll have them from the strangers
who will be their future rulers?
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
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DON'T LET RESULTS DISHEARTEN YOU.
Christian faith is ease not anguish.
It reveals a high example.
Jesus shows us how we should be
and behave to be His blessed ones.

He would like us to be warriors,
to defend His creeds and teachings.
He was not afraid of fighting
even when it meant His torture.

He was counting on His Master,
Who conferred on Him great power.
All His gifts could give the spirits
which might not yield instant profits.

Christ could do what was perfection
but if failure bled His forehead,
He would say," l did my utmost;
the results come from my Father."
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ARE THEY EQUAL?
One carries on his aching back
a heavy tree trunk of great weight
approaching that unfathomed depth.
He needs two steps to bridge that fall.

But these two steps will send him down
where no one can see him again.
Without being safe, he builds that bridge;
he does not reach the other edge.

But that rich side is where hope lives
and all the people thank that man.
He's lived and died with that sweet dream.
The others relish what he's done.

Some take those steps and sacrifice
themselves not looking down but forth.
How can some people live to give
while others shamelessly receive?
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WITH DEATH, LIFE IS PUNISHMENT.
What is the use of being born
if you don't stay alive for good?
The stars live long, yet they will pass.
The thought of death will wreck their lives.

The Lord has trampled that who holds
a sickle and looks like bare bones.
Where is the gain that stars live long
since if time flies, they will lose light?

My heart is with who's vanquished death
as what is good should have no flaws.
No man would like to be alive
if all will turn to useless earth.

How great is Christ, the mighty Son,
Who's stripped death of its fearful strength
to give mankind an endless life
to live the joy that has no end.
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HUMBLENESS, THE QUIET VIRTUE
Who am l to think l'm better
than the others who are normal?
Do l ken a bit more knowledge
or l fake l have this honour?

Those who are distinguished people
have no time to waste on nonsense.
They invest their time in labour
as they want to use their talents.

Don't be haughty, bell, as you know
Your inside is wholly empty.
Bullion can't fulfill your purpose
as its value is so heavy.

Help me, Lord, to be quite humble.
Bells have nothing save their shouting.
Greatest men employ their silence;
when they talk, all run to listen.
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BUT I WILL RETURN.
What are you, thoughts,
but like what can be brought
by gazing eyes that look
at smoke that comes from frankincense
to charm my eyes
and fill my heart with piety?

I inhale some of your
entwining curves that rise
to Whom they are addressed
and l can live with Him in His high lodge.

It's easy for them to lift me.
At times, they might be strong
and take me far too high
to spheres which are so sweet.
But l should keep in mind
I will return
and find myself in that old world
which is so rife with plots and nasty schemes.
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MIND, SIN, AND THE DEVILS
They allure him into what will be
an obscene act that will seem so nice,
and don't show him how it will appear
till it is committed as a sin.

He's indulged in what they've shown to him
as a light so bright and full of taste.
His bedazzled eyes don't see the truth
which will appear when his act's been done.

Then he starts to blame himself so hard,
sorry for the dirt he's caused to her,
but no come back then can be restored
and that causes him the loss of joy.

Devils then will crowd around his mind.
He can see them laugh and giggle loud.
What he's caused her will make her so mean
as no home is made to save their world.
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