ACCEPTED, Perfect, and Complete, For God's inheritance made meet! How true, how glorious, and how sweet! In the Beloved -- by the King Accepted, though not anything But forfeit lives had we to bring. And Perfect in Christ Jesus made, On Him our great transgressions laid, We in his righteousness arrayed. Complete in Him, our glorious Head, With Jesus raised from the dead, And by His mighty Spirit led! O blessed Lord, is this for me? Then let my whole life henceforth be One Alleluia-song to Thee! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN A LECTURE-ROOM by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH SONNET TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE RICH DAYS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK: FIT 3. THE BAKER'S TALE by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE GYPSY by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS EJACULATORY PRAYER by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS LILIES: 12. 'YET I ENDURE.' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |