<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461411" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song IV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Downcast midst vile sins,<br>From my innermost heart<br>I cry out, God unbounded!<br>Hear the mournful plaints<br>Of my grievous voice,<br>And in Thy compassion<br>Lend an ear of mercy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wouldst Thou our evils<br>Weigh, kind Father,<br>On Thine own justice's scale, <br>Who'd know such fortune,<br>Who in virtues be so firm,<br>That coming for true judgment,<br>Would not be condemned?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Thou, gracious judge, <br>Punish not our erring ways <br>With deserved severity; <br>Thy law, with mercy filled, <br>And Thy faithful words, O Lord, <br>That wouldst pluck me from this ill,<br>Inspire in me certain trust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis why, whether roseal dawn<br>Brings forth a beaming sun,<br>Or night, arrayed in darkening clouds,<br>In darkness doth lead on,<br>Let doubt not dissuade <br>Those people so chosen<br>From resolute trust in their Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a treasure inexhaustible <br>Is His eternal compassion; <br>He'll idle not in healing wounds<br>Or raising one who's stumbled; <br>He, past all measure of doubt, <br>Shall forget not His own people, <br>And to salvation shall lead them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mikolaj+Sep+Szarzynski">Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski</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=461411" data-title="Song IV de Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski" data-description="Downcast midst vile sins, From my innermost heart I cry out, God unbounded! Hear the mournful plaints Of my grievous voice, And in Thy compassion Lend an ear of mercy! Wouldst Thou our evils Weigh, kind Father, On Thine own justice's scale, Who'..."></div> </div> </div>

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