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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537891" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Necessity Of Self–Abasement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Source of love, my brighter sun,<br>Thou alone my comfort art;<br>See, my race is almost run;<br>Hast thou left this trembling heart?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my youth thy charming eyes<br>Drew me from the ways of men;<br>Then I drank unmingled joys;<br>Frown of thine saw never then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spouse of Christ was then my name;<br>And, devoted all to thee,<br>Strangely jealous I became,<br>Jealous of this self in me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thee to love, and none beside,<br>Was my darling, sole employ;<br>While alternately I died,<br>Now of grief, and now of joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the dark and silent night<br>On thy radiant smiles I dwelt;<br>And to see the dawning light<br>Was the keenest pain I felt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou my gracious teacher wert;<br>And thine eye, so close applied,<br>While it watched thy pupil's heart,<br>Seemed to look at none beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Conscious of no evil drift,<br>This, I cried, is love indeed—<br>'Tis the giver, not the gift,<br>Whence the joys I feel proceed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, soon humbled and laid low,<br>Stript of all thou hast conferred,<br>Nothing left but sin and woe,<br>I perceived how I had erred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the vain conceit of man,<br>Dreaming of a good his own,<br>Arrogating all he can,<br>Though the Lord is good alone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He the graces thou hast wrought<br>Makes subservient to his pride;<br>Ignorant that one such thought<br>Passes all his sin beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such his folly—proved, at last<br>By the loss of that repose,<br>Self–complacence cannot taste,<br>Only love divine bestows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis by this reproof severe,<br>And by this reproof alone,<br>His defects at last appear,<br>Man is to himself made known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Learn, all earth! that feeble man,<br>Sprung from this terrestrial clod,<br>Nothing is, and nothing can;<br>Life and power are all in God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q>
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Thou alone my comfort art;
See, my race is almost run;
Hast thou left this trembling heart?

In my youth thy charming eyes
Drew me from the ways of men;
Then I drank unmingled joys;
Frown of thine saw never then.

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