εὐχή β' — to wrestle with the Life of Life

Strife

I ask not from the inward strife
  A dozing spirit tamely free:
To wrestle with the Life of Life
  Is life, or life enough for me.

But from the strife of tongues, O Lord,
  That rages round thy sanctuary,
From speech that slayeth like a sword
  Protect the soul that seeketh Thee.

H.W. Garrod. Oxford Poems. John Lane Company (1912)