Verse 1
Thou awful GOD, by All unknown,
Omniscient as Thou art,
Whose Ear attends the stiffled Groan,
And hears the sighing Heart;
Whose piercing Eye with Pity sees
Th’ unutterable Pain,
To Thee I offer my Distress,
And secretly complain.

Verse 2
Wretched indeed, Thou knowst, I am,
The sad Reverse of Thee,
Weigh’d down with Fear, orewhelm’d with shame
And sunk in Misery:
Thou only knowst The Reason why
In deep Distress I grieve,
Impatient, yet afraid, to die,
But more afraid to live.

Verse 3
No faintest Ray of distant Hope
My Spirit e’er shall have,
Unless thy Mercy lift me up
To look beyond the Grave;
With Final Happiness in view,
I could my Burthen bear,
And wade a Sea of Sorrows thro’
To reach my Haven there.

Verse 4
My evil things content I am
To have, while here below,
But save me from that Final Shame
That Everlasting Woe:
The Loss of One than Life more dear
I quietly sustain,
Let me but in thy Sight appear,
And find thy Love again.

Verse 5

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