God, when He takes my goods and
chattels
hence,
Gives me a portion, giving patience:
What is in God is God; if so it be
He patience gives, He gives Himself to me.
Gives me a portion, giving patience:
What is in God is God; if so it be
He patience gives, He gives Himself to me.
Robert Herrick
_Male-incense_, incense in globular drops.
84. TO GOD: ON HIS SICKNESS.
What though my harp and viol be
Both hung upon the willow tree?
What though my bed be now my grave,
And for my house I darkness have?
What though my healthful days are fled,
And I lie number'd with the dead?
Yet I have hope, by Thy great power,
To spring; though now a wither'd flower.
85. SINS LOATHED, AND YET LOVED.
_Shame checks our first attempts_; but then 'tis prov'd
_Sins first dislik'd are after that belov'd_.
86. SIN.
Sin leads the way, but as it goes, it feels
The following plague still treading on his heels.
87. UPON GOD.
God, when He takes my goods and chattels hence,
Gives me a portion, giving patience:
What is in God is God; if so it be
He patience gives, He gives Himself to me.
88. FAITH.
What here we hope for, we shall once inherit;
By faith we all walk here, not by the Spirit.
89. HUMILITY.
Humble we must be, if to heaven we go:
High is the roof there; but the gate is low:
Whene'er thou speak'st, look with a lowly eye:
Grace is increased by humility.
90. TEARS.
Our present tears here, not our present laughter,
Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.
_Handsels_, earnest money, foretaste.
91. SIN AND STRIFE.
After true sorrow for our sins, our strife
Must last with Satan to the end of life.
92. AN ODE, OR PSALM TO GOD.
