The Kings (https://allpoetry.com/The-Kings)
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Louise Imogen Guiney
A man said unto his Angel:
"My spirits are fallen low,
And I cannot carry this battle:
O brother! where might I go?
"The terrible Kings are on me
With spears that are deadly bright;
Against me so from the cradle
Do fate and my fathers fight."
Then said to the man his Angel:
"Thou wavering, witless soul,
Back to the ranks! What matter
To win or to lose the whole,
"As judged by the little judges
Who hearken not well, nor see?
Not thus, by the outer issue,
The Wise shall interpret thee.
"Thy will is the sovereign measure
And only events of things:
The puniest heart, defying,
Were stronger than all these Kings.
"Though out of the past they gather,
Mind's Doubt, and Bodily Pain,
And pallid Thirst of the Spirit
That is kin to the other twain,
"And Grief, in a cloud of banners,
And ringletted Vain Desires,
And Vice, with the spoils upon him
Of thee and thy beaten sires, --
"While Kings of eternal evil
Yet darken the hills about,
Thy part is with broken sabre
To rise on the last redoubt;
"To fear not sensible failure,
Nor covet the game at all,
But fighting, fighting, fighting,
Die, driven against the wall."
The Full Armor of God
10 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-10.htm)Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the might of his power. 11 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-11.htm)Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. 12 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-12.htm)For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. 13 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-13.htm)Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. 14 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-14.htm)Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice, 15 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-15.htm)And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace: 16 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-16.htm)In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. 17 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-17.htm)And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).
Pray Continually
18 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-18.htm)By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints: 19 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-19.htm)And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel. 20 (https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-20.htm)For which I am an ambassador in a chain, so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.
Ephesians 6:10
No thumbs up for the Word of God- the greatest of them all? This should prepare any Christian for battle.
(Poetry doesn’t always have to rhyme.)
Psalm 143
[1] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=1-#x) Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. [2] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=2-#x) My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. [3] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=3-#x) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? [4] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=4-#x) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. [5] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=5-#x) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
[6] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=6-#x) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them. [7] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=7-#x) Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: [8] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=8-#x) Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. [9] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=9-#x) To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee. [10] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=10-#x)Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
[11] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=11-#x) Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity: [12] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=12-#x) Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: [13] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=13-#x) Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: [14] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=14-#x) Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets. [15] (http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=143&l=15-#x) They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.