> おお・・・我らが慈母アマテラス大神  
>  御許がこの世を去られて幾星霜時世経て久しくなりにけるも  
>  この蘇神ひと時も欠くことなく今日の日を待ち申しけり  
>  御許の御隠れの際に転び出でし十三の筆神はこの広い人界に惑い散り散りになりにけり  
>  我は天の星座となりて生き長らえたるをいま一度御許に仕わせ失せ物の蘇るを **見継がせ給え** ！  
>  この力あらば涸れた天の川など忽ち星くずで **溢れさせ給いぬ**

Note: アマテラス大神, 蘇神, 筆神, and 天の川 are proper names, you may just disregard those.

As always this is a quote from a game and the context is that the main
character is the reincarnation of a god on a quest to regain her former powers
she has lost. This quote is from one of the gods giving you back on of these
powers, i.e. rejuvenation. Giving the translation a quick (and rough) whirl,
this is what I came up with:

> Oh, our great Mother Amaterasu  
>  Just how much time has passed since you've left this world.  
>  And despite that I have been waiting for this very day without fail.  
>  The thirteen gods of the brush have gotten lost all over this mortal world
> the moment you disappeared.  
>  I have turned into a constellation in order to survive but shall once more
> serve you and give you the power of rejuvenation.  
>  With this power you shall be able to fill the river of the heavens in an
> instant.

I'm not that well-versed in old Japanese so please excuse the shoddy
translation leaving out any possible nuances. What I'm actually interested
here is the usage of ～させ給う as I've come across that more than in just one
instance.

Going by my first intuition, I would have said that 仕わせ (I assume the 給え here
is dropped as it appears after the second verb in the sentence anyway) and
見継がせ給え mean something akin to 'allow me to serve you' and 'allow me to help
you' respectively (with the させ給え meaning …をおさせになさって; or maybe just simply
～させてください?) while 溢れさせ給いぬ means 'surely you shall be able to fill...' (in this
case 給う meaning お…なさる) or something similar.

I got the info on ～させ給う from [this
site](https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%95%E3%81%9B%E7%B5%A6%E3%81%B5) by
the way; maybe I have misinterpreted the definitions, so if I have gotten
anything wrong, please let me know!
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～させ給う - How to interpret?
As long as real classic Japanese is concerned, せたまふ is not causative but just
a double honorific (supreme sonkeigo). In other word, つかわせたまへ and 見継がせたまへ are
“please use them (make them serve you)” and “please keep watching”. However,
since it’s just an archaism, it technically can be causative too. That said,
if “please keep watching” makes sense in that context, that’s probably it.

Edit: if it was 失せ物の蘇りたるを, it’s more likely “allow those dead yet revived help
you”. With 蘇る, I’m not sure. If that interpretation goes well along with the
story, that could still it.
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