How Might I, in Faith, Do as You Ask

Music: Laus Deo. By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan. Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge.

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How might I, in faith, do as You ask? Innocent, I hung upon Your Word, Great with the intention to be good. However, here life flows the other way. How might I remove the inner mask, Opening my heart to the absurd, Letting go the righteousness I would Yet have between the truth and what I say. Deliver me, then, naked to this task, And turn away, Whom I so long have served. Yearning to repent, as well I should, So let me see myself in my own gaze.