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(La Imagen de Dios)
By Francisco de Aldana
O Lord! who seest, from yon starry height, / Centred in one the future and the past, / Fashioned in thine own image, see how fast / The world obscures in me what once was bright! / Eternal Sun! the warmth which thou hast given, / To cheer life's flowery April, fast decays; / Yet in the hoary winter of my days, / Forever green shall be my trust in Heaven. / Celestial King! O let thy presence pass / Before my spirit, and an image fair / Shall meet that look of mercy from on high, / As the reflected image in a glass / Doth meet the look of him who seeks it there, / And owes its being to the gazer's eye.