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I: When first, to make my heart his own, / The Lord reveal'd his mighty grace, / Self reign'd, like Dagon, on the throne, / But could not long maintain its place.
II: It fell, and own'd the power divine, / (Grace can with ease the victory gain,)
But soon this wretched heart of mine / Contrived to set it up again.
III: Again the Lord his name proclaim'd, / And brought the hateful idol low; / Then self, like Dagon, broken, maim'd, / Seem'd to receive a mortal blow:
IV: Yet self is not of life bereft, / Nor ceases to oppose his will; / Though but a maimed stump be left, / 'Tis Dagon -- 'tis an idol still.
V: Lord! must I always guilty prove, / And idols in my heart have room?
Oh! let the fire of heavenly love / The very stump of self consume.