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I: My soul once had its plenteous years, / And throve, with peace and comfort fill'd, / Like the fat kine and ripen'd ears / Which Pharaoh in his dream beheld.
II: With pleasing frames and grace received, / With means and ordinances fed, / How happy for a while I lived, / And little fear'd the want of bread!
III: But famine came, and left no sign / Of all the plenty I had seen; / Like the dry ears and half-starved kine, / I then look'd wither'd, faint, and lean.
IV: To Joseph the Egyptians went; / To Jesus I made known my case:
He, when my little stock was spent, / Open'd his magazine of grace.
V: For he the time of dearth foresaw, / And made provision long before; / That famish'd souls, like me, might draw / Supplies from his unbounded store.
VI: Now on his bounty I depend, / And live from fear of dearth secure:
Maintain'd by such a mighty friend, / I cannot want till he is poor.
VII: O sinners, hear his gracious call!
His mercy's door stands open wide; / He has enough to feed you all, / And none who come shall be denied.