Religion
Mark 1:5: What, to man my follies own
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
What, to man my follies own!
Pride will never give consent:
Lord, Thou seest my heart is stone.
Till the stricken rock is rent:
Touch my heart Avith contrite shame,
Speak my stubborn pride removed;
Then I can to all proclaim
What a monster Thou hast loved.
Bid me step into the pool,
By repentance I obey:
But my filthiness of soul
Cannot thus be purged away:
Tears may wash my actual sin;
Guilt requires a stronger flood:
Plunge, and make my spirit clean
In the fountain of Thy blood.
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MLA
Wesley, Charles. “Mark 1:5: What, to man my follies own.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4638/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 1:5: What, to man my follies own.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4638/.
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