[BNP/E3, 49B⁶ – 35; 13 – 16]

[BNP/E3, 13 – 16^v]

“Thy Will be

done.”

[BNP/E3, 49B⁶ – 35]

“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 will be done.”

[35^v]

“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!”

[BNP/E3, 13 – 16^r]

“Thy Will Be Done” (all with capital letters),

Although God {…} and {…} 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!”

          _____

Charles Robert Anon.

(3 April 1906)