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After considering some of his Friends.

I.
1 WHY do the Deeds of happier Men
2 Into a Mind return,
3 Which can, opprest by Bands of Sloth,
4 With no such Ardors burn?
II.
5 GOD of my Life and all my Pow'rs,
6 The Everlasting Friend!
7 Shall Life so favour'd in its Dawn,
8 Be fruitless in its End?
III.
9 To Thee, O Lord, my tender Years
10 A trembling Duty paid,
11 With Glimpses of the mighty GOD
12 Delighted and afraid.
IV.
13 From Parents' Eye, and Paths of Men,
14 Thy Touch I ran to meet;
15 It swell'd the Hymn, and seal'd the Pray'r,
16 'Twas calm, and strange, and sweet!
V.
17 Oft when beneath the Work of Sin
18 Trembling and dark I stood,
19 And felt the Edge of eager Thought,
20 And felt the kindling Blood:
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VI.
21 Thy Dew came down — my Heart was Thine,
22 It knew nor Doubt nor Strife;
23 Cool now and peaceful as the Grave,
24 And strong to Second Life.
VII.
25 Full of Myself I oft forsook
26 The Now, the Truth, and Thee,
27 For sanguine Hope, or sensual Gust,
28 Or earth-born Sophistry:
VIII.
29 The Folly thriv'd, and came in Sight
30 Too gross for Life to bear;
31 I smote the Breast for Man too base,
32 I smote — and GOD was there!
IX.
33 Still will I hope for Voice and Strength
34 To glorify thy Name;
35 Tho' I must die to all that's Mine,
36 And suffer All my Shame.

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Title (in Source Edition): After considering some of his Friends.
Author: Rev. John Gambold
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Wesley, John, 1703-1791. Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788. Hymns and sacred poems: Published by John Wesley, ... and Charles Wesley, ... London: printed by William Strahan; and sold by James Hutton; and at Mr. Bray's, 1739, pp. 57-58. x,[6],223,[1]p.; 12⁰. (ESTC T31323; OTA K034809.000) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Vet. A4 f. 254].)

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