| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Hymns of the Eastern Church (1862).
III. “Christian! dost thou see them?” | | By John Mason Neale (1818–1866) |
| | (From “S. Andrew of Crete”)
CHRISTIAN! dost thou see them | |
| On the holy ground, | |
| How the troops of Midian | |
| Prowl and prowl around? | |
| Christian! up and smite them, | 5 |
| Counting gain but loss: | |
| Smite them by the merit | |
| Of the Holy Cross! | |
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| Christian! dost thou feel them, | |
| How they work within, | 10 |
| Striving, tempting, luring, | |
| Goading into sin? | |
| Christian! never tremble! | |
| Never be down-cast! | |
| Smite them by the virtue | 15 |
| Of the Lenten Fast! | |
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| Christian! dost thou hear them | |
| How they speak thee fair? | |
| “Always fast and vigil? | |
| Always watch and prayer? | 20 |
| Christian! say but boldly: | |
| “While I breathe I pray:” | |
| Peace shall follow battle, | |
| Night shall end in day. | |
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| “Well I know thy trouble, | 25 |
| O My servant true; | |
| Thou art very weary,— | |
| I was weary too: | |
| But that toil shall make thee, | |
| Some day, all Mine own: | 30 |
| But the end of sorrow | |
| Shall be near My Throne.” | | | | |
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