<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537909" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Soul That Loves God Finds Him Everywhere</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O thou, by long experience tried,<br>Near whom no grief can long abide;<br>My love! how full of sweet content<br>I pass my years of banishment!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All scenes alike engaging prove<br>To souls impressed with sacred love<br>Where'er they dwell, they dwell in thee;<br>In heaven, in earth, or on the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To me remains nor place nor time;<br>My country is in every clime;<br>I can be calm and free from care<br>On any shore, since God is there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While place we seek, or place we shun,<br>The soul finds happiness in none;<br>But, with a God to guide our way,<br>'Tis equal joy to go or stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could I be cast where thou art not,<br>That were indeed a dreadful lot;<br>But regions none remote I call,<br>Secure of finding God in all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My country, Lord, art thou alone;<br>Nor other can I claim or own;<br>The point where all my wishes meet;<br>My law, my love, life's only sweet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hold by nothing here below;<br>Appoint my journey and I go;<br>Though pierced by scorn, oppressed by pride,<br>I feel thee good--feel nought beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No frowns of men can hurtful prove<br>To souls on fire with heavenly love;<br>Though men and devils both condemn,<br>No gloomy days arise from them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, then! to his embrace repair;<br>My soul, thou art no stranger there;<br>There love divine shall be thy guard,<br>And peace and safety thy reward.</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> <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=537909" data-title="The Soul That Loves God Finds Him Everywhere de William Cowper" data-description="O thou, by long experience tried, Near whom no grief can long abide; My love! how full of sweet content I pass my years of banishment! All scenes alike engaging prove To souls impressed with sacred love Where'er they dwell, they dwell in thee; In..."></div> </div> </div>

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