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VI.

Oh, then, while here I stay,
Be this my one request;

My stricken heart to lay

Upon THY loving breast;

For THOU, my GOD, art all in all to me, And life's most rapturous thought is "Still with THEE."

VII.

And when I hence depart,
Grant me in Heaven a place;

And be it near THY heart,

And let me see THY face;

For THOU, my GOD, art all in all to me, And life's most rapturous thought is "Still with THEE."

Lot in Sodom.

"And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; The Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.”—

GEN. xix, 16.

I.

LORD, if, ensnared by love of gain,
My eager steps I've bent

Towards sinful cities of the plain,

And, like Lot, pitched my tent

In Sodom, where the body's fed,
But where the soul is famishéd,

Oh, help me to repent.

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II.

And in THY mercy come to me, And by THY SPIRIT, say;— "Haste! fly thou hence, or sin will be

Thy ruin if thou stay."

And if, with lingering look, I stand,

In love with evil, take my hand

And lead THOU me away.

III.

THOU bidd'st me seek for joys divine; And oft, to turn I vow;

Yet still entranced, before the shrine Of earthly good I bow.

Against myself, LORD, I complain; THOU bidd'st me fly,-I still remain ! Oh, help; and help me now.

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