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VI.
[Once if I felt no heart nor strength to pray]
Once if I felt no heart nor strength to pray,If of a sudden vanished quite I found
The goods wherein I dreamed I did abound,
And this blank mood continued many a day,
I was quite swallowed up in dim dismay:
My heart, I said, by deadly frost is bound,
And never will warm days again come round:
But now more hopefully I learn to say—
Either some sin is lurking in my breast,
Troubling the host , which being once confest,
He will his presence and his light restore,
Or thus one needful lesson he is fain
To teach—that in ourselves we are always poor,
Which learned, he soon will make me rich again.
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