University of Virginia Library

1575.

[Need I then, my God, despair]

But the third shall be left therein. —xiii. 8.

Need I then, my God, despair
Thy favour to retain?
Lost if two in three there are,
The third shall still remain:
Of the third distinguish'd part
That I may live for ever one,
Stamp Thine image on my heart,
And join me to Thy Son.