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[Inspired with life and vigour new]

My soul followeth hard after Thee. —lxiii. 8.

Inspired with life and vigour new,
I toward my Centre move;
With all my vehement soul pursue
The hallowing God of love.
With infinite desire I pant
Thy fulness to receive;
And nothing less than Christ I want,
Than all Thou hast to give.
Forgetting still the things behind,
I reach to those before;
Impatient till the rest I find,
Where sin subsists no more.
I follow on to apprehend
Whom yet I cannot see;
And never shall my labours end,
Till I am lost in Thee.