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16 HYMNS. [PART
2 My thoughts, before they are ray own,
Are to my God distinctly known ;
He knows the words I mean to speak
Ere from my op’ning lips they break.
3 Within thy circling pow’r I stand ;
On ev’ry side I find thy hand :
Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,
I am surronnded still with God.
4 Amazing knowledge, vast and great!
What large extent! what lofty height!
My soul, with all the pow’rs I boast,
Is'in the boundless prospect lost.
5 “ O may these thoughts possess my breast,
“ Where’er I rove, where’er 1 rest!
“ Nor let my weaker passions dare
“ Consent to sin, for God is there.”
PAUSE I.
6 Conld I so false, so faithless prove.
To quit thy service and thy love.
Where, Lord, could I thy presence shun,
Or from thy. dreadful glory run ?
7 If up to heav’n I take my flight,
’Tis there thou dwell’st enthron’d in light;
Or dive to hell, there vengeance reigns.
And,Satan groans beneath thy chains.
8 If, mounted on a morning ray,
I fly beyond the western sea.
Thy swifter hand would first arrive,
And there arrest thy fugitive.
9 Or should I try to shun thy sight
Beneath the spreading veil of night.
One glance of thine, one piercing ray.
Would kindle darkness into day.
10 “ O may these thoughts possess my breast,
“ Where’er I rove, where’er I rest!