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My stock lies dead, and no increase, Doth my dull husbandry improve; O let thy grace still without cease, Drop from above! The dew doth every morning fall, And shall the dew outstrip thy dove, The dew for which grass cannot call? Drop from above! Death is still working like a mole, And digs my grave at each remove; Let grace work too, and on my soul Drop from above! Sin is still hammering my heart Unto a hardness void of love; Let suppling grace, to cross his art, Drop from above! O come! for Thou dost know the way, Or if to me thou wilt not move, Remove me when I need, and say— Drop from above!
My stock lies dead, and no increase, Doth my dull husbandry improve; O let thy grace still without cease, Drop from above! The dew doth every morning fall, And shall the dew outstrip thy dove, The dew for which grass cannot call? Drop from above! Death is still working like a mole, And digs my grave at each remove; Let grace work too, and on my soul Drop from above! Sin is still hammering my heart Unto a hardness void of love; Let suppling grace, to cross his art, Drop from above! O come! for Thou dost know the way, Or if to me thou wilt not move, Remove me when I need, and say— Drop from above!
Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- George Herbert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 262 · printed citation: George Herbert · subject: GRACE
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