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Text:Weakness Bewailed
Author:Dr. Watts

CIX. Weakness Bewailed

1 Why is my heart so far from thee,
My GOD, my chief delight?
Why are my thoughts no more by day
With thee, no more by night?

2 Why should my foolish passions rove?
Where can such sweetness be,
As I have tasted in thy love,
As I have found in thee?

3 When my forgetful soul renews
The savour of thy grace,
My heart presumes I cannot lose
The relish all my days.

4 But e'er one fleeting hour is past,
The flatt'ring world employs
Some sensual bait to seize my taste,
And to pollute my joys.

5 Then I repent, and vex my soul,
That I shou'd leave thee so:
Where will those wild affections roll,
That let a Saviour go?

Text Information
First Line: Why is my heart so far from thee
Title: Weakness Bewailed
Author: Dr. Watts
Meter: Common Metre
Language: English
Publication Date: 1790
Topic: After Sermon
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