ALONE WITH GOD | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1859

ALONE WITH GOD.

Alone with God! day's craven cares Have crowded onward unawares; The soul is left to breathe her prayers.

Alone with God! I bare my breast, Come in, come in, O holy Guest, Give rest, thy rest, of rest the best!

Alone with God! how calm a calm Steals o'er me, sweet as music's balm When seraphs sing a seraph's psalm.

Alone with God! no human eye Is here, with eager look to pry Into the meaning of each sigh.

Alone with God! no jealous glare Now stings me with its torturing stare; No human malice says, Beware!

Alone with God! from earth's rude crowd, With jostling steps, with laughter loud, My better soul I need not shroud;

Alone with God! he only knows If sorrow's ocean overflows The silent spring from whence it rose.

Alone with God! He mercy lends; Life's fainting hope, life's meager ends, Life's dwarfing pain he comprehends.

Alone with God! he feeleth well The soul's pent life that will o'erwell, The life-long want no words may tell.

Alone with God! still nearer bend; O, tender Father, condescend, In this my need, to be my friend.

Alone with God! with suppliant mien, Upon thy pitying breast I lean, Nor less because thou art unseen.

Alone with God! safe in thine arms O shield me from life's wild alarms, O save me from life's fearful harms.

Alone with God! my Father, bless With thy celestial promises, The soul that needs thy tenderness.

Alone with God! O sweet to me, This covert to whose shade I flee, To breathe repose in thee, in thee.—Sel.