RESIGNATION.
(Tenderly dedicated to — .) And dost Thou ask once more of me my best, Ihe yielding up of my heart's treasured flower? So long I watched its opaning, sweet and blest, And richer seemed its perfume every hour 1 But ah ! there came a storm, which, blowing
fierce, Uprooted my sweet flower and laid it low ; Throuth my torn heart felt I Thine arrows pierce, For this frail opening bud I'd cherished so. And now Thou'st snatched it, tender Saviour, see The anguish of my heart, and read therein The wish to yield unmurmuringly to Thee, And that the flesh should shrink, oh, count not
sin. For Thou hast planted in the human breast The love which makes it now so hard to yield. Oh ! soothe my yearning spirit into rest, And from each shade of dark rebellion shield! Pallia, Southland, July 1830. ' -M,0,&
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Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 49
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144RESIGNATION. Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 49
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