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I SHALL BE SATISFIED

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 22, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 26.

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I SHALL BE SATISFIED.

By M. C. C.

If I in thy likeness, O Lord, may awake, And shine a pure image of thee, Then I shall be satisfied, when I can break The fetters of flesh, and be free; I know this stained tablet must first be washed white, To let thy bright features be drawn; I know I must suffer the darkness of night, To welcome the coming of dawn.
Oh! I shall be satisfied when I can cast The shadow of nature all by, When this cold, dreary world from my vision is passed; To live in an unclouded day; I now feel the blest morning begins to draw near, When time's dreary fancy shall fade If then in thy likeness I may but appear, In glory and beauty arrayed.
To see thee in glory, O Lord, as thou art, Freed from mortal and perishing clay, My spirit is longing to be where thou art, And sighs for the dawn of that day; And when on thine own image in me thou hast smiled, Within thy blest mansion, and when The arms of my Father encircle his child, Oh! I shall be satisfied then.
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