“Let me, oh! Lord! from life retire,
Unknown each guilty worldly fire,
Remorseful throb, or loose desire;
And when I die,
Let me in this belief expire,
‘To God I fly’!”
Stranger, if full of youth and riot
As yet no grief has marred thy quiet,
“Let me, oh! Lord! from life retire,
Unknown each guilty worldly fire,
Remorseful throb, or loose desire;
And when I die,
Let me in this belief expire,
‘To God I fly’!”
Stranger, if full of youth and riot
As yet no grief has marred thy quiet,