309.
[Can I forget the wondrous ways]
Thou shalt remember all the way, &c.
—viii. 2.
Can I forget the wondrous ways
By which Thou hast Thy servant led
Through a long lonely wilderness!
How strangely kept, how strangely fed,
Tempted, and proved by hopes and fears,
I roved for more than forty years!
Provoked, Thou didst not quite depart,
But farther yet Thy Spirit tried,
And show'd the evil of my heart,
The stubbornness, deceit, and pride,
While still I cast Thy grace away,
And would not, when I might, obey.
