<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115040" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hope arising from retrospection</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! my fond enquiring soul,<br> Doom'd in suspence to mourn;<br>Now let thy moments calmly roll,<br> Now let thy peace return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should'st thou let a doubt disturb<br> Thy hopes, which daily rise,<br>And urge thee on to trust his word<br> Who built and rules the skies?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look back thro' what intricate ways<br> He led thy unfriended feet;<br>Oft mourning in the cheerless maze,<br> He ne'er forsook thee yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thunder from heav'n's arch did break,<br> And cleft the sinking ship,<br>His mercy snatch'd thee from the wreck,<br> And from the rolling deep:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when Disease, with threat'ning mein,<br> Aim'd at thy trembling heart,<br>Again his mercy interven'd,<br> And turn'd aside the dart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Murder sent her hopeless cries<br> More dreadful thro' the gloom,<br>And kindling flames did round thee rise,<br> Deep harvests to consume;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who was it led thee thro' the wood<br> And o'er th' ensanguin'd plain,<br>Unseen by ambush'd sons of blood,<br> Who track'd thy steps in vain?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas pitying heav'n that check'd my tears,<br> And bade my infants play,<br>To give an opiate to my fears,<br> And cheer the lonely way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the doubly dreadful night<br> When my Abella died,<br>When horror struck---detesting light!<br> I sunk down by her side:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When wing'd for flight my spirit stood,<br> With this fond thought beguil'd,<br>To lead my charmer to her God,<br> And there to claim my child;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again his mercy o'er my breast<br> Effus'd the breath of peace;<br>Subsiding passions sunk to rest,<br> He bade the tempest cease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! let me ever, ever praise<br> Such undeserved care;<br>Tho' languid may appear my lays,<br> At least they are sincere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never will distrust thee more,<br> Tho' hell should aim her dart;<br>Innoxious is infernal pow'r,<br> If thou Protector art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is my joy that thou art God,<br> Eternal, and supreme---<br>Rise Nature! hail the power aloud,<br> From whom creation came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ann+Eliza+Bleecker">Ann Eliza Bleecker</a> from <i>The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115040" data-title="Hope arising from retrospection de Ann Eliza Bleecker" data-description="Alas! my fond enquiring soul,/ Doom'd in suspence to mourn;/Now let thy moments calmly roll,/ Now let thy peace return./Why should'st thou let a doubt disturb/ Thy hopes, which daily rise,/And urge thee on to trust his word/ Who built and rules th..."></div> </div> </div>

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