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Saved I have been . . . saved by a Living Lord.

I have received life through His gracious accord---

given escape from my baser self---as from a trouble some wraith,

comforted in the words compiled by the stellaring faith. 

Lord Jesus:  I pray, as I begin to die,

to be spared that last, and most dire, temptation;

and soaring, starward, toward the Heavenly

Kingdom of unending, jubilant exultation.

I look to You, and unto You, let come my cry.

I thank You, Lord, in offered poetry,

for the Orthodox Faith, the Common Salvation,

which is and shall always be my soul's chiefest exultation

among the redeemed of the Orthodox Church, the great congregation;

as well as my prayer-rope's starward inclination. 

These, together, are my foremost delectation, 

and I offer thanks especially

for Your assurance of Mercy, in infinite abundancy,

(that conquers and removes all human perfidy

and all the spectres of temptation).

Brethren:  let us praise His Mercy, continuously;

His Mercy in which we are kept throughout eternity.