Make Us Learn
>> Friday, August 31, 2007
WITH humble heart and tongue,
Our God, to thee we pray;
O! make us learn while we are young,
How we may cleanse our way.
Make us, unguarded youth,
The objects of thy care;
Help us to choose the way of truth,
And fly from every snare.
Our hearts to folly prone,
Renew by power divine;
Unite them to thyself alone,
And make us wholly thine.
O! let thy word of grace
Our warmest thoughts employ;
Be this through all our following days,
Our treasure and our joy.
To what thy laws impart,
Be our whole soul inclined;
O! let them dwell within our heart,
And sanctify our mind.
May thy young servants learn,
By these to cleanse their way;
And may we here the path discern
That leads to endless day.
Our God, to thee we pray;
O! make us learn while we are young,
How we may cleanse our way.
Make us, unguarded youth,
The objects of thy care;
Help us to choose the way of truth,
And fly from every snare.
Our hearts to folly prone,
Renew by power divine;
Unite them to thyself alone,
And make us wholly thine.
O! let thy word of grace
Our warmest thoughts employ;
Be this through all our following days,
Our treasure and our joy.
To what thy laws impart,
Be our whole soul inclined;
O! let them dwell within our heart,
And sanctify our mind.
May thy young servants learn,
By these to cleanse their way;
And may we here the path discern
That leads to endless day.
--E.D. Harwood
1 comments:
Amen and Amen! That is beautiful! I love how you caught the motion of the wings with a slow shutter speed, but yet kept the rest of the butterfly crisp.
That poem is so powerful in it's very simplicity.. Thanks so much!
"May thy young servants learn,
By these to cleanse their way;
And may we here the path discern
That leads to endless day."
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