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405. PART 11. “Amen.”
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Ere we utter, it is finish'd,And the last amen repeat;
Many steep and toilsome wanderings,
'Mid alternate cold and heat,
Through life's journey,
Still await our wandering feet!
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Lessons, hard to be adopted,We must learn before we die,
And, “Amen” be oft repeated,
With the tear, and with the sigh,
To prepare us
For the glorious world on high!
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Can we see our friends desert usFor religion's cause alone;
Can we, if possessions vanish,
Still our Father's goodness own?
Looking forward
Where afflictions are unknown?
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Can we, if disease invade us,Pain or languor overtake,
Say, amen, and with the faithful,
Heaven alone our refuge make?
Brought the nearer
As our comforts us forsake?
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If the hopes our hearts have cherish'd,Brighter than the summer's day,
God, in his unerring wisdom,
Like our gourds, should take away;
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Then, amen! devoutly say?
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And, when death at length approaches,(Whose precursors pass'd before,)
Are we then prepar'd to utter
The amen! and God adore?
Ever willing
What he wills, and nothing more?
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Then, a glorious consummationWaits to make our joy complete!
When, (beholding Him who bought us,)
We surround the mercy seat,
And, the final,
Loud and long, amen! repeat!
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