<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115585" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Doubter's Prayer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eternal Power, of earth and air!<br>Unseen, yet seen in all around,<br>Remote, but dwelling everywhere,<br>Though silent, heard in every sound.<br>If e'er thine ear in mercy bent,<br>When wretched mortals cried to Thee,<br>And if, indeed, Thy Son was sent,<br>To save lost sinners such as me:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then hear me now, while, kneeling here,<br>I lift to thee my heart and eye,<br>And all my soul ascends in prayer,<br>Oh, give me -­ give me Faith! I cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without some glimmering in my heart,<br>I could not raise this fervent prayer;<br>But, oh! a stronger light impart,<br>And in Thy mercy fix it there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While Faith is with me, I am blest;<br>It turns my darkest night to day;<br>But while I clasp it to my breast,<br>I often feel it slide away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, cold and dark, my spirit sinks,<br>To see my light of life depart;<br>And every fiend of Hell, methinks,<br>Enjoys the anguish of my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What shall I do, if all my love,<br>My hopes, my toil, are cast away,<br>And if there be no God above,<br>To hear and bless me when I pray?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If this be vain delusion all,<br>If death be an eternal sleep,<br>And none can hear my secret call,<br>Or see the silent tears I weep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, help me, God! For thou alone<br>Canst my distracted soul relieve;<br>Forsake it not: it is thine own,<br>Though weak, yet longing to believe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, drive these cruel doubts away;<br>And make me know, that Thou art God!<br>A faith, that shines by night and day,<br>Will lighten every earthly load.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I believe that Jesus died,<br>And, waking, rose to reign above;<br>Then surely Sorrow, Sin, and Pride,<br>Must yield to Peace, and Hope, and Love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all the blessed words He said<br>Will strength and holy joy impart:<br>A shield of safety o'er my head,<br>A spring of comfort in my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Bront%C3%AB">Anne Brontë</a> from <i>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</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=115585" data-title="The Doubter's Prayer de Anne Brontë" data-description="Eternal Power, of earth and air!/Unseen, yet seen in all around,/Remote, but dwelling everywhere,/Though silent, heard in every sound./If e'er thine ear in mercy bent,/When wretched mortals cried to Thee,/And if, indeed, Thy Son was sent,/To save ..."></div> </div> </div>

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