<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421576" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Plenty In A Time Of Dearth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My soul once had its plenteous years,<br>And throve, with peace and comfort filled,<br>Like the fat kine and ripened ears,<br>Which Pharaoh in his dream beheld. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With pleasing frames and grace received,<br>With means and ordinances fed;<br>How happy for a while I lived,<br>And little feared the want of bread. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But famine came and left no sign,<br>Of all the plenty I had seen;<br>Like the dry ears and half-starved kine,<br>I then looked withered, faint and lean. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Joseph the Egyptians went,<br>To Jesus I made known my case;<br>He, when my little stock was spent,<br>Opened his magazine of grace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he the time of dearth foresaw,<br>And made provision long before;<br>That famished souls, like me, might draw<br>Supplies from his unbounded store. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now on his bounty I depend,<br>And live from fear of dearth secure,<br>Maintained by such a mighty friend,<br>I cannot want till he is poor. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O sinners hear his gracious call!<br>His mercy's door stands open wide,<br>He has enough to feed you all,<br>And none who come shall be denied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</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=421576" data-title="Plenty In A Time Of Dearth de John Newton" data-description="My soul once had its plenteous years, And throve, with peace and comfort filled, Like the fat kine and ripened ears, Which Pharaoh in his dream beheld. With pleasing frames and grace received, With means and ordinances fed; How happy for a while..."></div> </div> </div>

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