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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE; A HYMN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My maker! Of thy power the trace
Last Line: Where but thy shadow falls, grief cannot be!
Subject(s): God
First Line: My maker! Of thy power the trace
Last Line: Where but thy shadow falls, grief cannot be!
Subject(s): God
My Maker! of thy power the trace
In every creature's form and face
The wond'ring soul surveys:
Thy wisdom, infinite above
Seraphic thought, a Father's love
As infinite displays!
From all that meets or eye or ear,
There falls a genial holy fear
Which, like the heavy dew of morn,
Refreshes while it bows the heart forlorn!
Great God! thy works how wondrous fair!
Yet sinful man didst thou declare
The whole Earth's voice and mind!
If rootless thus, thus substanceless thy state,
Lord, ev'n as Thou all-present art,
O may we still with heedful heart
Thy presence know and find!
Then, come what will, of weal or woe,
Joy's bosom-spring shall steady flow;
For though 'tis Heaven THYSELF to see,
Where but thy Shadow falls, Grief cannot be!
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