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O ye, whose hearts in secret bleed O’er transient hope, like morning dew, O’er friendship faithless in your need, Or love to all its vows untrue, Who shrink from persecution’s rod, Or slander’s fang, or treachery’s tone, Look meekly to the Son of God, And in His griefs forget your own. Forsaken are ye?—so was He; Reviled?—yet check the ’vengeful word; Rejected?—should the servant be Exalted o’er his suffering Lord? Nor deem that Heaven’s omniscient eye Is e’er regardless of your lot,— Deluded man from God may fly, But when was man by God forgot?
O ye, whose hearts in secret bleed O’er transient hope, like morning dew, O’er friendship faithless in your need, Or love to all its vows untrue, Who shrink from persecution’s rod, Or slander’s fang, or treachery’s tone, Look meekly to the Son of God, And in His griefs forget your own. Forsaken are ye?—so was He; Reviled?—yet check the ’vengeful word; Rejected?—should the servant be Exalted o’er his suffering Lord? Nor deem that Heaven’s omniscient eye Is e’er regardless of your lot,— Deluded man from God may fly, But when was man by God forgot?
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Sigourney (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 578 · printed citation: Mrs. Sigourney · subject: SUFFERING
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