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JACOB AND THE ANGEL. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007 JACOB AND THE ANGEL. SHALL he not bless me ? will he never speak Those words of proud concession, 'Let me go For the day breaketh ! Wearily and slow The shrouded hours troop past across the peak, Eastering ; and I, with hands grown all too weak And strength that would have failed me long ago, But for the set soul, strain to overthrow The instant God. Alas ! 'tis I that speak- Not Jacob I that in this night of days Do wrestle with the angel Art, till breath And gladness fail me ! Yet the stern soul stays And will not loose him till he bless me ay, Even though the night defer my victory Until the day break on the dawn of death. |