Poems (Coolidge)/When
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WHEN
When faults distress,
Temptations press,
Oh! grant me in believing,
Although I know my nothingness,
To feel that thou the efforts bless
I make in their retrieving.
Temptations press,
Oh! grant me in believing,
Although I know my nothingness,
To feel that thou the efforts bless
I make in their retrieving.
When dark the day,
When rough the way,
Grant solace for that hour;
To lean on thee, my staff, my stay,
To, patient, all thy will obey,
Vouchsafe the grace and power.
When rough the way,
Grant solace for that hour;
To lean on thee, my staff, my stay,
To, patient, all thy will obey,
Vouchsafe the grace and power.
When I must sleep
The slumber deep
That knows, on earth, no waking,
My hand in thine I'd trustful keep;
Then, show to thy once wayward sheep,
The light eternal breaking.
The slumber deep
That knows, on earth, no waking,
My hand in thine I'd trustful keep;
Then, show to thy once wayward sheep,
The light eternal breaking.