<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115046" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A hymn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Omnicient and eternal God,<br> Who hear'st the faintest pray'r<br>Distinct as Hallelujahs loud,<br> Which round thee hymned are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, far from all the world retir'd,<br> I humbly bow the knee,<br>And wish, (as I have long desir'd,)<br> An interest in thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But my revolting heart recedes<br> And rushes to the croud;<br>My passions stop their ears and lead,<br> Tho' conscience warns aloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How deeply sinful is my mind?<br> To every ill how prone?<br>How stubborn my dead heart I find<br> Insensible as stone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hardest marble yet will break,<br> Nor will resist the steel;<br>But neither wrath nor love can make<br> My flinty bosom feel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My passions like a torrent roar,<br> And tumbling to hell's glooms<br>Sweep me away from Reason's shore,<br> To "where Hope never comes."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By labour turn'd the useless stream<br> Thro' fertile vales has play'd;<br>But for to change the course of sin<br> Demands immortal aid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All nature pays the homage due<br> To the supremely blest;<br>All but the favour'd being who<br> Was plac'd above the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He bids the teeming earth to bear,<br> The blushing flow'rs arise;<br>At his command the sun appears<br> And warms the orient skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! was I but some plant or star,<br> I might obey him too;<br>Nor longer with the Being war,<br> From whom my breath I drew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Change me, oh God! with ardent cries<br> I'll venture to thy seat;<br>And if I perish; hell must rise<br> And tear me from thy feet.</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=115046" data-title="A hymn de Ann Eliza Bleecker" data-description="Omnicient and eternal God,/ Who hear'st the faintest pray'r/Distinct as Hallelujahs loud,/ Which round thee hymned are./Here, far from all the world retir'd,/ I humbly bow the knee,/And wish, (as I have long desir'd,)/ An interest in thee./But my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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