Creator of the earth and skies
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Creator of the earth and skies, To whom all truth and power belong, Grant us your truth to make us wise; Grant us your power to make us strong. We have not known you: to the skies Our monuments of folly soar, And all our self-wrought miseries Have made us trust ourselves the more. We have not loved you: far and wide The wreckage of our hatred spreads, And evils wrought by human pride Recoil on unrepentant heads. We long to end this worldwide strife: How shall we follow in your way? Speak to mankind your words of life, Until our darkness turns to day. |
Creasti terram et polos; est tua vis et veritas: prudentes veritate nos et vi valentes facias. Nesciris; heu! dementiae tolluntur sursum culmina, nostroque ipsorum vulnere est aucta pertinacia. Te non amavimus; loca fragmentis odium replet; nec, nostra quos superbia punivit, illius pudet. Sit pax per orbem quaesumus, euntem ut sequamur te; salutem dic hominibus cedantque luci tenebrae. |