Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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SPIRITUAL GRATITUDE. |
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SPIRITUAL GRATITUDE.
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How vast the love! that with its eye looks down,And, kind as fair, can as it looks pass by
The crimes that cause e'en Grace to wear a frown,
And wake the voice whose call would wake the sky.
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Such love is thine! thou source and end of all,Whom all shall own, and at whose feet shall bend
As first bright hosts, while these on men shall call,
To aid their song, and hail their source and end.
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For thou, my heart, with all thy want of grace,Shalt thou be last to join thy hand or voice
With such a band, whose pride it is to raise
A sound that swells, and spreads, and fires its joys!
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