<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Trust Of The Wicked, And The Righteous Compared</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As parched in the barren sands<br>Beneath a burning sky,<br>The worthless bramble with'ring stands,<br>And only grows to die. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such is the sinner's aweful case,<br>Who makes the world his trust;<br>And dares his confidence to place<br>In vanity and dust. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A secret curse destroys his root,<br>And dries his moisture up;<br>He lives awhile, but bears no fruit,<br>Then dies without a hope. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But happy he whose hopes depend<br>Upon the Lord alone;<br>The soul that trusts in such a friend,<br>Can ne'er be overthrown. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though gourds should wither, cisterns break,<br>And creature-comforts die;<br>No change his solid hope can shake,<br>Or stop his sure supply. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So thrives and blooms the tree whose roots<br>By constant streams are fed;<br>Arrayed in green, and rich in fruits,<br>It rears its branching head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It thrives, though rain should be denied,<br>And drought around prevail;<br>'Tis planted by a river's side<br>Whose waters cannot fail.</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=421649" data-title="Trust Of The Wicked, And The Righteous Compared de John Newton" data-description="As parched in the barren sands Beneath a burning sky, The worthless bramble with'ring stands, And only grows to die. Such is the sinner's aweful case, Who makes the world his trust; And dares his confidence to place In vanity and dust. A secre..."></div> </div> </div>

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