<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>His Litany, To The Holy Spirit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the hour of my distress,<br>When temptations me oppress,<br>And when I my sins confess,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I lie within my bed,<br>Sick in heart, and sick in head,<br>And with doubts discomforted,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the house doth sigh and weep,<br>And the world is drown'd in sleep,<br>Yet mine eyes the watch do keep,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the artless doctor sees<br>No one hope, but of his fees,<br>And his skill runs on the lees,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When his potion and his pill,<br>Has, or none, or little skill,<br>Meet for nothing but to kill,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the passing-bell doth toll,<br>And the furies in a shoal<br>Come to fright a parting soul,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the tapers now burn blue,<br>And the comforters are few,<br>And that number more than true,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the priest his last hath pray'd,<br>And I nod to what is said,<br>'Cause my speech is now decay'd,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When, God knows, I'm tost about<br>Either with despair, or doubt;<br>Yet, before the glass be out,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the tempter me pursu'th<br>With the sins of all my youth,<br>And half damns me with untruth,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the flames and hellish cries<br>Fright mine ears, and fright mine eyes,<br>And all terrors me surprise,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the Judgment is reveal'd,<br>And that open'd which was seal'd;<br>When to Thee I have appeal'd,<br>Sweet Spirit, comfort me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Herrick">Robert Herrick</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=507348" data-title="His Litany, To The Holy Spirit de Robert Herrick" data-description="In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart, and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the house doth..."></div> </div> </div>

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