Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
 |
 |
|
|
| I. |
| II. |
| III. |
| IV. |
| V. |
|
 | Poems and Essays |  |
95
IN DEJECTION
II.
I will not die! Ah! once again, dear God,
Stretch down from heaven thy succouring hand benign;
Ah! once again,—now, when thy merited rod
Touches me sorely, and scarcely I divine
The face of comfort, bearing the heavy load
Of a dead heart,—and Dark wherein doth shine
No lamp or hope of light hath quite o'erflowed
And whelmed in dark this fainting spirit of mine;
Once more stretch forth thy hand before I die,
O Lord, my refuge! unto Thee I cling!
Show me thy face; to my dim spiritual eye,
Upturned though dark, thy radiant daylight bring;
Once, once again, on this cold rock my heart
Strike, till to thy loved touch the living waters start.
| Poems and Essays | |