Verse 1
And is there Hope for me
In Life’s distracting Maze,
And shall I live on Earth to see
A few unruffled Days?
A Man of Sorrows I,
A sufferer from the Womb,
Twas all my Hope in Peace to die,
And rest within my Tomb.

Verse 2
How then can I conceive
A Good for me design’d
The greatest GOD Himself could give,
The Parent of Mankind?
A good by Sovereign Love
To sinless Adam given
His joyous Paradise t’ improve,
And turn his Earth to Heaven.

Verse 3
GOD of unbounded Grace,
If yet Thou wilt bestow
On me the Vilest of the Race
Thy choicest Gift below;
My drooping Heart prepare
The Blessing to receive
And bid the Child of sad Despair
With Confidence Believe.

Verse 4
My new and strange Distress
To Thee I simply own,
Inur’d to Pain I start from Peace
And dread a Good unknown:
My Heart Thou seest it ache
Its dearest Wish t’ obtain
And know’st my Fear of measuring back
My steps to Earth again.

Verse 5
Assure my trembling Soul
Of thy decisive Will
My endless Doubts and Fears controul,
And bid my Heart be still:
Regard thy Servant’s Call
And shed thy Love abroad,
The Sign Infallible that all
My Works are wrought in GOD.

Verse 6
Thou, Lord, direct my Ways,
On all my Counsels shine
And lead by thine unerring Grace
This feeble Soul of mine;
Thy Pard’ning Love reveal
In Proof of thy Decree,
And stamp Her with thy Spirit’s Seal,
The Friend design’d for me.

Verse 7
With stedfast Faith and Love
Let me thy Creature take
As a good Angel from above,
Sent down for Jesus’ sake.
Not to inthrall my Will
Not to put out my Eyes
But fix my Heart and fire my Zeal
And lift me to the Skies.

Verse 8
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