Rondel

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Rondel

I Do Not Know Thy Final Will

I do not know thy final will,

It is too good for me to know:

Thou willest that I mercy show,

That I take heed and do no ill,

That I the needy warm and fill,

Nor stones at any sinner throw;

But I know not thy final will⁠—

It is too good for me to know.

I know thy love unspeakable⁠—

For love’s sake able to send woe!

To find thine own thou lost didst go,

And wouldst for men thy blood yet spill!⁠—

How should I know thy final will,

Godwise too good for me to know!