The Reliquary By Bernard and Lucy Barton. With A Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets |
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“BUT GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN
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“BUT GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN .”
The bitterest cup that man can know,
In passing through this Vale of Woe,
May be in mercy sent;
Nor need its wormwood or its gall
The humble Christian's heart appal,
If sweeten'd with content.
In passing through this Vale of Woe,
May be in mercy sent;
Nor need its wormwood or its gall
The humble Christian's heart appal,
If sweeten'd with content.
The thorniest path that man can tread,
Although with darkest skies o'erspread
With patience may be trod;
By him, whose treasure is above,
Who knows that God in Christ is love,
And meekly bears the rod.
Although with darkest skies o'erspread
With patience may be trod;
By him, whose treasure is above,
Who knows that God in Christ is love,
And meekly bears the rod.
But all that love himself can give,
For which e'en worldling's fain would live,
No pleasure can impart;
Where Discontent's envenom'd sting
Has poisoned at its inmost spring
The fountain of the heart.
For which e'en worldling's fain would live,
No pleasure can impart;
Where Discontent's envenom'd sting
Has poisoned at its inmost spring
The fountain of the heart.
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