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You ask me

• • You ask me why I see no charm nor glory
  • in this world's pleasures or its wealth and fame?
  • And why I love that Galilean story
  • of One who died upon a cross of shame?
  • It is because my soul hath known her sinning,
  • the grief and darkness of that cry “undone,”
  • and at that Cross has found a new beginning,
  • life through the death of that dear Dying One.
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  • You ask me why I find no rest nor gladness
  • in paths where selfish ease would while my hours?
  • And why I toil where hearts in bitter sadness
  • lie crushed beneath sin's fierce o'erwhelming powers?
  • It is because I know Life's thread is slender,
  • but one short hour, one little stretch of road.
  • Then yearns my heart with love divinely tender,
  • to seek the lost and bring them home to God.
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  • You ask me why what gifts I have, what graces
  • are poured an offering at His holy feet,
  • and why I brave the cold contemptuous faces
  • of those who love this world and find it sweet?
  • It is because I see a distant morning
  • when stand God's sons around His jasper throne;
  • I see bright crowns those holy brows adorning,
  • and I, too, long to hear my Lord's “Well done.”
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• Album: English Hymns, Artist: E M Govan, Language: English, Viewed: 584 times