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Give me strength, | Give me strength, Lord, give me strength. | ||
I want to break all my fetters. | |||
I want to | Give me tunes and still more tunes | ||
That I may ever sing Your songs. | |||
In hope and despair, gain and loss, | |||
Let my mind never be embroiled. | |||
Amid this cosmic vibration, | |||
Let me make a ripple, | |||
Merging myself in Your mission. | |||
Let me merge, Lord— | |||
I want to make a ripple. | |||
Let me be one with Your mission. | |||
Making a ripple, | |||
Let me be one with Your mission. | |||
In the | In conventional ways, | ||
My mind refuses to pause. | |||
It wants to witness musical ambrosia. | |||
This multifaceted world— | |||
It wants to behold that. | |||
It wants to adopt ambrosial tunes. | |||
It wants to take part in this multifaceted world. | |||
It wants to witness | |||
In the nectar of melody | |||
The world in its many facets. | |||
Give me strength, Lord, give me strength. | |||
I want to crush all bondage of attachment. | |||
Give me tunes and still more tunes | |||
That I may ever sing Your songs. | |||
Give me strength, Lord, give me strength. | |||
Give me tunes and still more tunes. | |||
Give me strength, | |||
I want to | |||
Give me | |||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
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