Soul of my Soul

by Epes Sargent

  Soul of my soul, impart
     Thy energy divine!
  Inform and fill this languid heart,
     And make thy purpose mine.
  Thy voice is still and small,
     The world's is loud and rude:
  Oh, let me hear thee over all,
     And be, through love, renewed!

  Give me the mind to seek
     Thy perfect will to know;
  And lead me, tractable and meek,
     The way I ought to go.
  Make quick my spirit's ear
     Thy faintest word to heed:
  Soul of my soul! be ever near
     To guide me in my need.