Isaiah 40:31: With faith's most fix'd attention

With faith's most fix'd attention,
Jesus, on Thee I wait.
To gain in life's declension.
My primitive estate.
That vigour to recover,
Original, Divine;
And love my heavenly Lover,
And live entirely Thine.

With restless expectation
I for Thine image groan,
The strength of full salvation'
Impatient to put on;
I long at that glad hour
To find, dear Lord, in Thee,
The spirit of health and power.
And spotless purity.

A prostrate soul desiring
To walk in all Thy ways.
With Thy own Spirit inspiring,
Among the children place.
Then, then a babe forgiven,
I without fainting go.
After my Guide to heaven.
And walk like Thee below.

In grace and faith increasing,
A man of God, I rise,
Wrestle ior Jacob's blessing,
And win the long-sought prize;
With fervent zeal aspire,
To prove Thy perfect will,
And run, (but never tire,)
And scale the holy hill.

Eager my utmost Saviour,
As I am known, to know;
Establish'd in Thy favour,
I to a father grow.
From glory unto glory.
Changed by Thy Spirit, I
Shall walk unblamed before Thee,
Shall to Thy bosom fly.

Swift as an eagle soaring.
To view that heavenly Sun,
I mount, — I fall adoring.
Before the azure throne.
In songs, or silence praising
The God who died for me,
In triumphing, or gazing
Through all eternity.
1 138. They shall mount up ivith laiitgs as eagles, S c. — xl.
Must we not walk before we run.
And run before we fly.
From strength to strength go humbly on,
And labour up the sky?
The children walk in Christ, improve
To youths, and run their race,
The fathers soar with perfect love.
And see llim face to face.