Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend

Gerard Manley Hopkins Edited by Robert Bridges

Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum: verumtamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via imporum prosperatur? &c.Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contendWith thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why mustDisappointment all I endeavour end? ⁠Wert thou my...