User:Joe Spencer/a song of (within) songs: Psalm 54

  a song of (within) songs: psalm 54
  
  O God; give ear to the words of my mouth--
  by night on my bed
      sought I him whom my soul
  (midst oppressors) doth love:
      save me, O God above--
  for the strangers are ris'n,
      who have set up their gods
  (by my bed) and not Thee--
      yet they shall not cut me:
  as they lift up their hands
      and I lift up my voice,
  cut them off in Thy truth,
      eye for eye, tooth for tooth--
  now Thy double reward
      fills the strangers and me:
  though both they and I bow,
      yet only I will rise now
  
  O God; give ear to the words of my mouth--
  now a fountain of gardens,
      in the midst of the fires,
  leaving them of concision,
      filled with almighty vision,
  beckon I my Beloved
      in His garden repose,
  there to eat and to drink,
      while I on Him think--
  now the spirits nearby wending
      sing in cloven tongues fiery:
  eat, O friends; yea,
      drink, and make yourselves gay--
  now I witness the lights
      gathered into the sun:
  a stone dove (from a well
      of live waters) scatt'rs hell
  
  O God; give ear to the words of my mouth--
  who is this that appears
      as the morning's dawn breaks?
  is it I on a throne,
      reaping all He has sown?
  after mine eye hath seen
      (by mine Helper, my God,
  and those who me uphold),
      have I head of fine gold?
  God, Thyself, call'st me beautiful,
      namest Thou me Thy dove
  so with sceptre and crown
      shall I bow myself down--
  for I will sacrifice,
      and I will praise Thy name,
  reasoning on the One
      fair as moon, clear as sun

• The scriptures that inspired this poem: Psalm 54, The Song of Solomon, and the three facsimiles from the Book of Abraham.
• Other scriptures engaged in this poem: Ex 21:24, Isa 40:2, Philip 3:2, Acts 2:3, John 4:10, Dan 2:32.