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THE VISION OF PAUL.
What is this that stops my way
Like a wall, unseen by day?
Who doth bid my errand stay
Ere I come?
What o'erclouds me like a dream,
Blotting each remembered scheme
With an unaccustomed theme?
“Jèsu sum.”
Like a wall, unseen by day?
Who doth bid my errand stay
Ere I come?
What o'erclouds me like a dream,
Blotting each remembered scheme
With an unaccustomed theme?
“Jèsu sum.”
What strange dissolution rends
From the comfort of my friends,
From my life's determined ends?
Dark and dumb,
What doth bind my fluent tongue
Like an instrument unstrung,
With its lesson never sung?
“Jèsu sum.”
From the comfort of my friends,
From my life's determined ends?
Dark and dumb,
What doth bind my fluent tongue
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With its lesson never sung?
“Jèsu sum.”
See! this sudden shock of light
Falls like palsy on my sight,
Till I view no path aright
In my gloom;
All my faculties are dead,
Every sinew bound with lead:
What this shivering trance of dread?
“Jèsu sum.”
Falls like palsy on my sight,
Till I view no path aright
In my gloom;
All my faculties are dead,
Every sinew bound with lead:
What this shivering trance of dread?
“Jèsu sum.”
“Listen, since for human weal,
That thy misdirected zeal,
Mightier than it murdered, heal,
Am I come:
Thou with stones my saints hast slain,
Torture bound with scourge and chain;
Know thyself the martyr pain!
Jèsu sum.
That thy misdirected zeal,
Mightier than it murdered, heal,
Am I come:
Thou with stones my saints hast slain,
Torture bound with scourge and chain;
Know thyself the martyr pain!
Jèsu sum.
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Thou wert mine without thy knowing;
From this moment's wonder-showing,
Pay the debt thy life is owing Burthensome:
On the blindness of thy thought
Dawns the inner life unsought.
Teach, as thou thyself art taught;
Jèsu sum.”
From this moment's wonder-showing,
Pay the debt thy life is owing Burthensome:
On the blindness of thy thought
Dawns the inner life unsought.
Teach, as thou thyself art taught;
Jèsu sum.”
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