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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Thou Art Indeed Just
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Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen justa loquar ad
te: quare via impiorum prosperatur? |&c.| (Jerem. xii 1.)
 Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
   With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
   Why do sinners` ways prosper? and why must
 Disappointment all I endeavour end?
 Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend,
   How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost
   Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust
 Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend,

 Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and brakes
   Now, leav{`e}d how thick! lac{`e}d they are again
 With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes
   Them; birds build — but not I build; no, but strain,
 Time`s eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.
   Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
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