The Thraldom

I came, I saw, and was undone;

Lightning did through my bones and marrow run;

A pointed pain pierc’d deep my heart;

A swift cold trembling seiz’d on every part;

My head turn’d round, nor could it bear

The poison that was enter’d there.

So a destroying angel’s breath

Blows-in the plague, and with it hasty death;

Such was the pain, did so begin,

To the poor wretch, when Legion enter’d in.

“Forgive me, God!” I cry’d; for I

Flatter’d myself I was to die.

But quickly to my cost I found,

‘T was cruel Love, not Death, had made the wound;

Death a more generous rage does use;

Quarter to all he conquers does refuse:

Whilst Love with barbarous mercy saves

The vanquish’d lives, to make them slaves.

I am thy slave then; let me know,

Hard master! the great task I have to do:

Who pride and scorn do undergo.

In tempests and rough seas thy galleys row;

They pant, and groan, and sigh; but find

Their sighs increase the angry wind.

Like an Egyptian tyrant, some

Thou weariest out in building but a tomb;

Others, with sad and tedious art,

Labour i’ th’ quarries of a stony heart:

Of all the works thou dost assign

To all the several slaves of thine,

Employ me, mighty Love! to dig the mine.

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• My Friends by W. S. Merwin by William Stanley Merwin
• Language by W. S. Merwin by William Stanley Merwin
• It Is March by W. S. Merwin by William Stanley Merwin
• William Stanley Merwin – William Stanley Merwin by William Stanley Merwin
• Green Fields by W. S. Merwin by William Stanley Merwin
• For The Anniversary Of My Death by W. S. Merwin by William Stanley Merwin
• For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin by William Stanley Merwin
• When I Met My Muse by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Waking at 3 a.m. by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Thinking For Berky by William Stafford by William Stafford
• The Light By The Barn by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Security by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Returned To Say by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Remembering Mountain Men by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Objector by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Lit Instructor by William Stafford by William Stafford
• Just Thinking by William Stafford by William Stafford
• William Stafford – William Stafford by William Stafford

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