<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421610" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gourd</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As once for Jonah, so the Lord<br>To soothe and cheer my mournful hours,<br>Prepared for me a pleasing gourd,<br>Cool was its shade, and sweet its flow'rs. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To prize his gift was surely right;<br>But through the folly of my heart,<br>It hid the Giver from my sight,<br>And soon my joy was changed to smart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While I admired its beauteous form,<br>Its pleasant shade and graceful fruit;<br>The Lord, displeased, sent forth a worm,<br>Unseen, to prey upon the root. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I trembled when I saw it fade,<br>But guilt restrained the murm'ring word;<br>My folly I confessed, and prayed,<br>Forgive my sin, and spare my gourd. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His wondrous love can ne'er be told,<br>He heard me and relieved my pain;<br>His word the threat'ning worm controlled,<br>And bid my gourd revive again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, Lord, my gourd is mine no more,<br>'Tis thine, who only couldst it raise;<br>The idol of my heart before,<br>Henceforth shall flourish to thy praise.</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=421610" data-title="The Gourd de John Newton" data-description="As once for Jonah, so the Lord To soothe and cheer my mournful hours, Prepared for me a pleasing gourd, Cool was its shade, and sweet its flow'rs. To prize his gift was surely right; But through the folly of my heart, It hid the Giver from my si..."></div> </div> </div>

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