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I: Holy Lord God! I love thy truth, / Nor dare thy least commandments slight; / Yet pierced by sin, the serpent's tooth, / I mourn the anguish of the bite.
II: But though the poison lurks within, / Hope bids me still with patience wait; / Till death shall set me free from sin, / Free from the only thing I hate.
III: Had I a throne above the rest, / Where angels and archangels dwell, / One sin, unslain, within my breast, / Would make that heav'n as dark as hell.
IV: The pris'ner, sent to breathe fresh air, / And bless'd with liberty again, / Would mourn were he condemn'd to wear / One link of all his former chain.
V: But oh! no foe invades the bliss / When glory crowns the Christian's head; / One view of Jesus as he is / Will strike all sin for ever dead.