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I: God of my life, to thee I call, / Afflicted at thy feet I fall; / When the great water-floods prevail, / Leave not my trembling heart to fail!
II: Friend of the friendless and the faint, / Where should I lodge my deep complaint?
Where but with thee, whose open door / Invites the helpless and the poor?
III: Did ever mourner plead with thee, / And thou refuse that mourner's plea?
Does not the word still fix'd remain / That none shall seek thy face in vain?
IV: That were a grief I could not bear, / Didst thou not hear and answer pray'r; / But a pray'r-hearing, answ'ring God, / Supports me under every load.
V: Fair is the lot that's cast for me, / I have an Advocate with thee:
They whom the world caresses most / Have no such privilege to boast.
VI: Poor though I am, despised, forgot, / Yet God, my God, forgets me not; / And he is safe and must succeed, / For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead.