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Poems and Essays

By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton)

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[Lord, at thy feet we do not kneel]

Lord, at thy feet we do not kneel
For worldly wealth or temporal weal,
And sue not with these dropping tears
Exemption from our mortal fears.
Only whatever be our grief,
Not to miss Thee, our sure relief:
What loss, what pain, what woe betide,
To see this Angel by our side;
That Thou, our God, in this sad land
Sustain our feet, hold up our hand;
And the bright lamp of faith for ever
Shine in our path and fail us never.
Bonn, 1846.