GOD'S OMNISCIENCE. NFINITE God! to whom alone Thy many wondrous works are known Whose eye of all alone surveys The starry lamps' unnumbered rays Through bright Infinity; Whose.one glance sees the infant's birth, Or when that babe, as sire, on earth Spends his last closing day, The hour when land and sea arose; Or when in Dissolution's throes They haste to flee away; Oh! teach the finite mind of man Vainglorious of its little span, Proud of its puny might, To view its insignificance- In reverence aright! AGONY.41 F all the pangs that man can know The whelming waves of that dark sea Such breakers roll? May I like Him in that dread hour In such a time, my Father, send, When moments seem like hours in length, That comforting, angelic friend Who gave Him strength. Who, though his form escapes the sight, No spoken accent greets the ear, L ACQUIESCENCE IN TRIALS. ORD, grant me acquiescence in my pains, may yield; Recurring troubles, as returning rains, Pour on th' already overflooded field. O, reconcile me, for the mind will say, 'Mid pleasures craved, with hopeless longing zest. O, reconcile me, lest beneath some blow, The unchecked murmurs of resentment flow, Thou knowest all our human stubbornness ; Grant me the majesty of conqu'ring Paul, Or scare the Christian sentry from his post. The thought that martyrs bravely underwent May'st Thou be honoured in whatever worth Play fearlessly the part, most hard for him to play. |