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[While wandering in the wilderness]

He requested for himself that he might die. —xix. 4.

While wandering in the wilderness,
Such was my clamour to expire,
Not the deliberate wish of grace,
But nature's passionate desire:

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Father, my peevish haste forgive,
And strengthen'd by Thy Spirit's supply,
Patient, at Thy command, I live,
Joyful, at Thy permission, die.