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 87. St. Gregory Nazianzen  PEACE-LOVING man, of humble heart and true What dost thou here? Fierce is the city's crowd; the lordly few Are dull of ear! Sore pain it was to thee, till thou didst quit Thy patriarch-throne at length, as though for  power unfit.  So works the All-wise! our services dividing Not as we ask: For the world's profit, by our gifts deciding Our duty-task. See in king's courts loth Jeremias plead; And slow-tongued Moses rule by eloquence of  deed!  Yes! thou, bright Angel of the East! didst rear The Cross divine, Borne high upon thy liquid accents, where Men mock'd the Sign; Till that cold city heard thy battle-cry, And hearts were stirr'd, and deem'd a Pentecost was nigh.  Thou couldst a people raise, but couldst not rule: So, gentle one, Heaven set thee free, for, ere thy years were full, Thy work was done; According thee the lot thou lovedst best, To muse upon the past, to serve, yet be at rest.  Palermo .  June 12, 1833.