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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Weary Of The World, And With Heaven Most Dear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell, world, farewell<br>As thrall here I’m weary and no more will dwell,<br>The manifold burdens that on me have lain,<br>I wrest them now from me and do them disdain,<br>I wrench myself free, though am wearied withal:<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what everywhere<br>Does this world embellish with visage so fair?<br>’Tis all merely shadows and baubles of glass,<br>’Tis all merely bubbles and clattering brass,<br>’Tis all but thin ice, filth and mischief withal:<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My years what are they?<br>That furtively dwindle and sidle away?<br>And what are my worries? My thought-troubled mind?<br>My joy or my sorrow? My fancies so blind?<br>And what do my work, moil and toil all recall?<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh riches and gold,<br>You false earthly idol so bright to behold,<br>You are though among the deceits the world brings<br>That wax, wane and alter with all other things.<br>You are but vain glory whate’er may befall:<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, honour – ’tis what?<br>Your crowns and your laurels proclaim what you’re not,<br>And envy consumes you and sits on your back,<br>You lack peace of mind and are prone to attack!<br>You stumble where others contrive not to fall:<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, favour and grace<br>That mist-like enfold us, are gone without trace.<br>You fickle infl ator that puffs up the mind,<br>You thousand-eyed creature that e’en so are blind,<br>When viewed ’gainst the sun one can see that you pall:<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, friendship and trust,<br>That veers vanes to happiness with every gust!<br>You handsome deceiver, you fortunate pup,<br>That fails us so often in sorrow’s deep cup<br>You say what experience has us recall:<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, joys of the flesh<br>That many have fatally snared in their mesh,<br>You quick-burning tinder, you spark on the wind,<br>Have sown flames eternal for those that have sinned,<br>Your cup seems like honey, the drink though is gall:<br>’Tis vanity all,<br>’Tis vanity all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell, then, farewell<br>No more your deceits shall my soul now compel,<br>Oh world of delusion, I now you dismiss,<br>Consign to oblivion’s deepest abyss,<br>My grief and affliction no more me shall chafe:<br>With Abraham safe,<br>With Abraham safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There all of my years<br>Will start in eternity’s spring without tears,<br>My days will not dawn with the rise of the sun,<br>Nor moon’s wax or wane tell when night has begun,<br>My sun is Lord Jesus with rays like gold staves:<br>With Abraham safe,<br>With Abraham safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My riches and gold<br>Will always be mine both to have and to hold,<br>No robber can ever deprive me of them,<br>No bartering cause me to part with one gem,<br>I never will find myself left as a waif:<br>With Abraham safe,<br>With Abraham safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My honour is won<br>From that throne my Jesus is sitting upon,<br>A crown filled with glory for me is in store,<br>With blood of the lamb it is gilt ever more,<br>’Tis mine though the devil me gladly would strafe:<br>With Abraham safe,<br>With Abraham safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With grace I will shine<br>As one of the angelic host so divine,<br>No envious eye shall my face ever see,<br>God’s countenance gaze ever-smiling on me,<br>There will I pour scorn on death’s envious grave:<br>With Abraham safe,<br>With Abraham safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There I have a friend,<br>My Jesus who loves me I love without end,<br>My eye will regard him unclouded and fair,<br>The heavenly torch of his love proffered there,<br>In spirit Love’s blaze I eternal may crave:<br>With Abraham safe,<br>With Abraham safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My rapture and joy<br>Are quickened when angels their trumpets employ,<br>But God is all joy both for me and their kind!<br>Rejoice then, my soul, all the world leave behind!<br>Mind well on your heart God his joy will engrave:<br>With Abraham safe,<br>With Abraham safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Kingo">Thomas Kingo</a><div class=q>
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As thrall here I’m weary and no more will dwell,
The manifold burdens that on me have lain,
I wrest them now from me and do them disdain,
I wrench myself free, though am wearied withal:
’Tis vanity all,
’Tis vanity ..."></div>
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