John 9: The sinner blind is always poor

The sinner blind is always poor.
And begging waits at mercy's door:
He waits when now restored to sight
A suppliant still for farther light,
Humbly resolved through life to sit
A beggar at his Saviour's feet.
lyoi. Some said, This is he: others?,a.iA, He is like, d c. — ix

Enlighten'd by his God alone
A sinner saved is hardly known,
No more the slave of hell and sin
But humble, meek, and pure Avithin,
In love renew'd and born again,
The Christian is another man!

Yet well he knows himself the same,
And owns " the beggar blind I am ";
With open'd eyes he always sees
His pardon'd sin and past disease,
Different through grace in heart and will.
But of himself a sinner still.