ON HEARING ITS AUTHENTICITY DOUBTED BY
A MINISTER.
To doubt thy inspiration, glorious Song!
Let such dark doubts to Infidels belong,
Who feign to worship GOD in unity,
And strip the LAMB of all divinity.
Yes,–let such doubts to Infidels belong!
Poor ransom’d Sinners prize thee precious Song!
Taught by the SPIRIT’S witness in their heart,
They hail the mysteries thy lines impart.
Oh, that ’twere Infidels alone could doubt!
Alas! e’en Christians cast thy pages out;
Pastors who own and preach the Gospel news,
Can yet thy sacred melody refuse!
Thou best of Zion’s Songs! thy glowing phrase
Transcends the Shepherd-king’s sublimest lays:
Israel’s sweet singer never swept his lyre,
With such high thrillings of seraphic fire.
Let calculating, cold, phlegmatic minds,
Turn from the joy a warmer spirit finds,
And ‘mid their learned nothings strive to prove
Thy numbers flow’d from human, earthly love!
Martyr’d Redeemer! here I read Thy love
To thy blood-purchas’d Bride, Thy ransom’d Dove;
Intense, enthusiastic, ardent, fond;
All sordid human passion far beyond!
Spirit of GOD ! stamp, stamp each vivid line
On this too hard, too flinty heart of mine!
At each perusal fire its chords afresh,
And that shall turn the rocky thing to flesh!
(Charlotte Eliza Dixon)
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