When temptations throng and press Through a lonely wilderness, In my doubt and deadly fear, Jesus, Saviour, be Thou near: Thou hast all temptation known, All temptations overthrown. The First Temptation: When the sky is brass o'erhead, And I fear for daily bread, With the fullness of Thy peace Bid my fainting folly cease; Though the wilderness is bare, Thou wilt spread a table there. The Second Temptation: When ambitions bid me stray From the strait and narrow way, Thou, the Lord of all the earth, Teach me what is better worth. Show the gain of loving loss, And the glory of the cross. The Third Temptation: When the very work I do Brings a subtle danger too, And I fain would speed alone In a pathway of my own, Then, O self-denying Son, Not my will, but Thine, be done! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE REVEALER by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CHOEPHOROI: INVOCATION OF AGAMEMNON'S GHOST by AESCHYLUS THE ETERNAL JUSTICE by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH INGRATITUDE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH LISTENING by KATHARINE LEE BATES BATTLE AT THE RIVER RAISIN; JANUARY 22, 1813 by LEVI BISHOP TO THE OBELISK DURING THE GREAT FROST, 1881 by MATHILDE BLIND |