The Pearl a Middle English Poem a Modern Version in the Metre of the Original
The Pearl a Middle English Poem a Modern Version in the Metre of the Original
Elizabeth Rachel Chapman
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If foolish words flow from my tongue, Let not my speech thy spirit grieve. A queen in heaven while yet so young, Too high thou dost thyself upheave. Then what reward from strife were wrung ? What worship more might he achieve Who lived in penance morn and eve, Through bodily pain in bliss to be ? Honour more high might he receive, Than be crowned king by courtesy ? [40] IX ST^HAT courtesy rewards no deed -*- If all be true that thou dost say; Our life not two years didst thou lead Nor learned t...o please God, nor to pray, No Paternoster knew nor creed, And made a queen on the first day ! I may not think, so God me speed ! That God from right would swerve away; As a countess, damsel, by my fay ! To live in heaven were a fair boon, Or like a lady of less array, But a queen ! Ah, no ! it is too soon. " [41] "With Him there is no soon nor late, " Replied to me that worthy wight; "True always is His high mandate; He doth no evil, day nor night. Hear Matthew in the mass narrate, In the Gospel of the God of might, His parable portrays the state Of the Kingdom of Heaven, clear as light 'My servants, ' saith He, 'I requite As a lord who will his vineyard prune; The season of the year is right, And labourers must be hired soon.
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