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我若能关上那道门
我若能关上那道通往思想的门
使忧伤不能进到这屋內，
我若能勾消所有记忆的旧帐
不再想到过失和所犯的罪：
我的灵魂多么明淨清洁自由安息，
免除了这些可厌的伴随！
或是在我心外另有別房
不跟我的良知那么邻近，
使我能把罪念寄放在那里
喧闹的喊声就不再听闻；
享受何等的平靜安逸和喜乐，
再不让它扰害压制我的灵魂！
但，我的救主，是我的避难所，
你奇妙的恩典在罪与我的中间，
成为我心分別的牆垣
使我得以畅然的享受安眠；
使我里面有和平喜乐与安息，
永远的和我的罪隔断。
佚名
If I Could Shut the Gate
If I could shut the gate against my thoughts
And keep out sorrow from this room within,
Or memory could cancel all the notes
Of my misdeeds, and I unthink my sin:
How free, how clear, how clean my soul should lie,
Discharged of such a loathsome company!
Or were there other rooms without my heart
That did not to my conscience join so near,
Where I might lodge the thoughts of sin apart
There I might not their clam'rous crying hear;
What peace, what joy, what ease should I possess,
Freed from their horrors that my soul oppress!
But, O my Saviour, who my refuge art,
Let thy dear mercies stand 'twixt them and me,
And be the wall to separate my heart
So that I may at length repose me free;
That peace, and joy, and rest may be within,
And I remain divided from my sin.
Anonymous