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I: The ice and snow we lately saw, / Which cover'd all the ground, / Are melted soon before the thaw, / And can no more be found.
II: Could all the art of man suffice / To move away the snow, / To clear the rivers from the ice, / Or make the waters flow?
III: No, 'tis the work of God alone; / An emblem of the power / In his appointed hour.
IV: All outward means, till he appears, / Will ineffectual prove; / Though much the sinner sees and hears, / He cannot learn to love.
V: But let the stoutest sinner feel / The soft'ning warmth of grace, / Though hard as ice or rocks or steel, / His heart dissolves apace.
VI: Seeing the blood which Jesus spilt / To save his soul from woe, / His hatred, unbelief, and guilt, / All melt away like snow.
VII: Jesus, we in thy name entreat, / Reveal thy gracious arm; / And grant thy Spirit's kindly heat, / Our frozen hearts to warm.