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First Line: Establish in some better way
Last Line: And grief alone is near to god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eglinton, John


ESTABLISH in some better way
My life, thou Godhead! that I may
Know whether it as virtue ranks
To scorn Thy gifts, or give Thee thanks.

For now I feel Thee near, unsought.
But why, when I seemed worth Thy thought,
High-soul'd, impatient for a task --
Why not have called me then, I ask?

No mountings of the spirit please;
Thou dost accept our dregs and lees;
The wise are they that feel Thy rod,
And grief alone is near to God.





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