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SACRIFICE, by                    
First Line: My all, my all, I've sacrificed to god
Last Line: And love and joy burn with a spirit's fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline


'I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he
is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day.'2 TIM. i. 12.

MY all, my all, I've sacrificed to God;
Love, Joy, the bright career wherein I trod;
Bound them to regions more than earth sublime,
Deferr'd them to an hour more fix'd than time.
'I am persuaded he can keep them all,'
And give me each one back from forth its pall
Bright as I lay them down, restored at last,
When this sad present shall have changed to past.
I shall be happy then with all the power
Of all the anguish of this bitter hour;
I shall regain the dear ones of my home,
Be free through every world at will to roam;
Not with bound hands shall I behold distress,
But be as able as my will to bless.
Ambition shall attain each just desire,
And Love and Joy burn with a Spirit's fire.





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