Poem: “Deliver Me,” by C. S. Lewis

From all my lame defeats and oh! much more
From all the victories that I seem to score;
From cleverness shot forth on my behalf,
At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh;
From all my proofs of thy divinity,
Thou, who wouldst give no sign, deliver me.
Thoughts are but coins. Let me trust, instead
Of thee, their thin-worn image of thy head.
From all my thoughts, even from my thoughts of thee,
O thou fair silence, fall, and set me free.
Lord of the narrow gate and the needle’s eye,

Take from me all my trumpery lest I die.