<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Change</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saviour shine and cheer my soul,<br>Bid my dying hopes revive;<br>Make my wounded spirit whole,<br>Far away the tempter drive:<br>Speak the word and set me free,<br>Let me live alone to thee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I sigh and pray in vain,<br>Wilt thou still refuse to hear;<br>Wilt thou not return again,<br>Must I yield to black despair?<br>Thou hast taught my heart to pray,<br>Canst thou turn thy face away? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once I thought my mountain strong,<br>Firmly fixed no more to move;<br>Then thy grace was all my song,<br>Then my soul was filled with love:<br>Those were happy golden days,<br>Sweetly spent in prayer and praise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When my friends have said, Beware,<br>Soon or late you'll find a change;<br>I could see no cause for fear,<br>Vain their caution seemed and strange:<br>Not a cloud obscured my sky,<br>Could I think a tempest nigh? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little, then, myself I knew,<br>Little thought of Satan's pow'r;<br>Now I find their words were true,<br>Now I feel the stormy hour!<br>Sin has put my joys to flight,<br>Sin has changed my day to night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Satan asks, and mocks my woe,<br>Boaster, where is now your God?<br>Silence, Lord, this cruel foe,<br>Let him know I'm bought with blood:<br>Tell him, since I know thy name,<br>Though I change thou art the same.</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=421597" data-title="The Change de John Newton" data-description="Saviour shine and cheer my soul, Bid my dying hopes revive; Make my wounded spirit whole, Far away the tempter drive: Speak the word and set me free, Let me live alone to thee. Shall I sigh and pray in vain, Wilt thou still refuse to hear; Wilt ..."></div> </div> </div>

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