Devotional Verses Founded on and Illustrative of select Texts of Scripture [by Bernard Barton] |
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THE INFANT MOSES FOUND. |
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THE INFANT MOSES FOUND.
“And when she had opened it (the ark) she saw the child: and
behold the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said,
This is one of the Hebrews' children.”
—Exodus, ii. 6.
Vain the fond attempt of man
God's supreme decrees to scan,
Or estimate his ways;
What now is we darkly see,
But what shall hereafter be
Mocks our feeble gaze.
God's supreme decrees to scan,
Or estimate his ways;
What now is we darkly see,
But what shall hereafter be
Mocks our feeble gaze.
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Levi's daughter scarce could think,
When beside the river's brink
O'er the ark she mourn'd,
How that child in manhood's hour
Should with more than kingly power
Be honour'd and adorn'd.
When beside the river's brink
O'er the ark she mourn'd,
How that child in manhood's hour
Should with more than kingly power
Be honour'd and adorn'd.
Pharaoh's daughter little knew,
When, relenting at the view,
She interfer'd to save,
He whose sorrows thus could plead
Egypt's glory soon would lead
To ocean's yawning grave.
When, relenting at the view,
She interfer'd to save,
He whose sorrows thus could plead
Egypt's glory soon would lead
To ocean's yawning grave.
God! to thine omniscient eye
Things to come, and things gone by
Are as present shown;
In their origin, and end,
All unto thy glory tend,
And make thy goodness known.
Things to come, and things gone by
Are as present shown;
In their origin, and end,
All unto thy glory tend,
And make thy goodness known.
Teach us, then, in Thee to trust,
Wise and mighty, good and just;
That living faith bestow
Which, in moments dark or bright,
Knows that all thou dost is right,
And seeks no more to know.
Wise and mighty, good and just;
That living faith bestow
Which, in moments dark or bright,
Knows that all thou dost is right,
And seeks no more to know.
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