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The Waiting Soul.

By William Cowper

Topics: classic

Breathe from the gentle south, O Lord,     And cheer me from the north;     Blow on the treasures of thy word,     And call the spices forth!     I wish, thou knowst, to be resignd,     And wait with patient hope;     But hope delayd fatigues the mind,     And drinks the spirit up.     Help me to reach the distant goal,     Confirm my feeble knee;     Pity the sickness of a soul     That faints for love of thee.     Cold as I feel this heart of mine,     Yet, since I feel it so,     It yields some hope of life divine     Within, however low.     I seem forsaken and alone,     I hear the lion roar;     And evry door is shut but one,     And that is mercys door.     There, till the dear Delivrer come,     Ill wait with humble prayr;     An when he calls his exile home,     The Lord shall find me there.

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William Cowper

About William Cowper

William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnodist whose work bridges the gap between the Augustan age and Romanticism. His poems "The Task" and "John Gilpin" were enormously popular, and his hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" remains widely sung.

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