My Lord, it is you that they have said

bears the power of resurrection — 

here do I lay before you a youth, 

awfully in need of your attention.

Long ago was I charged to him,

My duty to offer protection,

But look at him now — 

The shadow of death is cast over his complexion.

Do not let his light

be lost to oblivion — 

I’d pay any price to save him — 

the ultimate, if needed.