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Plain text of Book 19, Hymn 9

Gentle be heaven, gentle be earth, gentle this spacious atmosphere, gentle be waters as they flow, gentle to us be plants and herbs!

2 Gentle be signs of coming change, and that which is and is not done! Gentle be past and future, yea, let all be gracious unto us.

3 Quickened by prayer, this speech which standeth in the highest place, by which the awful spell was made, even through it to us be peace!

4 Or, made more keen by prayer, this mind that standeth in the highest place, whereby the awful spell was made, even through this be peace to us!

5 These five sense-organs with the mind as sixth, sharpened by prayer, abiding in my heart, by which the awful spell was made, even by these be peace to us.

6 Favour us, God the Friend, the All-Seeing, and the All-Pervading, the Creator of creatures! Gracious to us be God the Mighty, the Lord of Prayer, and the Guardian of the covenant.

7 Favour us, God the Friend, the All-Seeing, the Radiant, and the Finisher of all. Portents on earth and in the air, and planets wandering in heaven, be gracious to us!

8 Gracious to us be trembling earth, gracious the flaming meteor stroke! Gracious be kine who yield red milk, gracious be earth when sinking down!

9 Gracious be meteor-stricken constellation, gracious to us be the fear of spells and witchcraft! Gracious to us be buried things, and gracious the meteors and the portents of the region!

10 Kind be the signs that darken the moon, and kind the eclipses of the sun! Favour us death and comet, and the angels of penetrating might!

11 Angels of every rank favour us! Favour us mighty messengers of God and the righteous, and the Lord of Prayer!

12 God the Creator, the Sustainer, the Lord of creatures, the worlds, the revelations, the seven sages, all these have blessed my happy way. May God the Mighty be my guardian, may God the Creator protect and shelter me.

13 May all the angels protect me, may the angels united shield me well. May all alleviations in the world which the seven sages know be kind and gracious unto me. Bliss and security be mine!

14 Earth alleviation, air alleviation, heaven alleviation, waters alleviation, plants alleviation, trees alleviation, all angels my alleviation, collective angels my alleviation, alleviation by alleviations. By these alleviations, these universal alleviations, I allay by God's leave all that is terrific here, all that is cruel, all that is wicked. This hath been calmed, this is now auspicious. Let all be favourable to us.