6.
“Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see
him? saith the Lord.”
Oft since that hour until the end e'en now,
While in the raised-apart and sacred shrine
The dread memorials of His Love Divine
Are offered up for us, there is below
One who hath ventured to His courts to go,
In whom His Omnipresent Eye descries,
A heart that secretly his Lord denies,
In self-deceiving thoughts and fears that bow
Before the multitude; who hears God's law,
While influences of men with present awe
O'erwhelm him; and content to be as they,
Forgets the lesson which the Garden taught,
And higher stern resolves before him brought,
Nor schools his heart aright to watch and pray.
