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Sacred Verses, with Pictures

Edited by The Rev. Isaac Williams. Part First

Williams, Isaac (1802-1865)

[THE GOOD SHEPHERD]

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“I HAVE GONE ASTRAY, LIKE A SHEEP THAT IS LOST.”

Good Shepherd, bear Thy long-lost sheep
Upon Thy shoulders home;
By Thine own side the wanderer keep,
That I no longer roam.

When, viewing all the past, I think
How I have gone astray,
My spirit doth within me sink;
I feel me far away.

Thy words, in trembling fear and love,
Then o'er and o'er I read,
Pledging that Thou from heaven above
Wilt come down in our need;

That Thou wilt all our sorrows own
When most we feel forlorn,
And Angels which surround Thy throne
Will pity them that mourn.

With them that mourn loss of Thy grace,
In sorrow and in fear,
The Angels which surround Thy face
And Thou Thyself art near.