With chastisement hath the Lord chastened me,
but He hath not given me over unto death.
so that I shall be fully prepared to worship Him in His Glory the more,
in the Eternity that cannot be measured for length, or width, or breadth.
Starward-Led
The poem quotes the Psalter According to the Seventy, copyright 1974 Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, MA.