<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Hymn</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>O 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 O 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">O 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">O 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><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=115698" data-title="A Hymn 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 lost ..."></div> </div> </div>

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