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[Gracious Thou, when most severe]

Let me fall into the hand of the Lord. —xxi. 13.

Gracious Thou, when most severe:
Let me, Lord, myself resign,
(If I must be punish'd here)
Fall into the Hands Divine,
Hands that this frail creature made,
Hands that still my soul sustain,
Hands which for my folly bled;
Bled the balm that heals my pain.