The Soldier’s Prayer (Rees Prichard Poems)
THOU God of might, who dost o'er hosts preside,Who dost alone the doubtful battle guide,Who dost alone the joyful vict'ry ...
THOU God of might, who dost o'er hosts preside,Who dost alone the doubtful battle guide,Who dost alone the joyful vict'ry ...
Rise with the cock, and clap each flutt'ring wing,In grateful hymns exultingly rejoice —Early to God, each Sunday morning, singWith ...
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
Whoe'er would have the sins forgiven,Whereby he has offended heaven,He must with diligence pursueThose useful Precepts, that ensue.Thou, first of ...
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
...Thy Sabbaths I profanely spentIn riot and vain merriment,Or, which is worse, in drunkenness,And ev'ry blameable excess.When other folks, of ...
TELL me, my soul, and in good earnest tell,Why dost thou seem afraid to Christ to go,With him and his ...
FORGET not, on my blessing, thrice a-day,Thy bounden sacrifice of praise to bring,And on thy bended knees devoutly prayBefore thy ...
My gracious God! compassion's Sire!Do not rebuke me in thine ire,Nor let thy dreadful wrath extendIts terrors to my latter ...
WHEN first thou go'st to court a maid,If thou'dst succeed, implore God's aid,And take his Spirit for thy guide,Or thou'lt ...
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
DID it not answer some benign intentTo mortify the flesh, and mend the mind,The Sire of mercies never wou'd have ...
For heaven's sake, my Sammy dear!In mind, till death, those precepts bear :Christ on thy bended knees adore,When in my ...
Let ev'ry one, that hears my voice,And understands my words, rejoice;Let ev'ry one applaud with meThe undivided Trinity.O turn, and ...
My coward soul, why dost thou dreadTo thy Redeemer Christ to go,Who his heart's blood so freely shed,To save thee ...
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
No one e'er his Maker's matchless might withstood,He's ever stedfast, and supremely good,He will fulfil, whate'er he did propose,And none, ...
LET all thy words a Christian import bear,Let them, with grace, at all times season'd be,That they may knowledge give ...
O Thou, that keepest hell's abyss close-barr'd,And o'er its gates hast set a constant guard,That Satan hast enchain'd, and death ...
Think, how thy life does steal away!'Tis daily shorten'd by a day ;And thou art now to death more nearBy ...
THOU God of mercy! Source of light and day!Giver of grace, and ev'ry useful boon!For Jesus' sake, O, hear us, ...
Author of health, who all the plants that growHast form'd! who hast the tyrant Death subdu'd!Thy blessing on this medicine ...
Awake, my sluggish soul! from sleep awake,And with a heart sincere attempt to sing(In the most daring flight thy thoughts ...
YE angels, and ye human sons of care!Ye heav'ns and earth, and all that in them are,Praise ye the Lord ...
Christ is the Paschal Lamb, our sacrifice,Christ is the offering, that made our peace,Christ is the spotless Lamb, by God ...
How proper, and how sweet a thing,It is with all the heart to singTo God at midnight, when the restOf ...
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