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HYMN: THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who yonder on the desert heath
Last Line: "such be thy gratitude!"
Subject(s): Good Samaritan


"WHO yonder on the desert heath,
Complains in feeble tone?"
-- "A pilgrim in the vale of death,
Faint, bleeding, and alone!"

"How cam'st thou to this dismal strand
Of danger, grief, and shame?"
-- "From blessed Sion's holy land,
By Folly led, I came!"

"What ruffian hand hath stript thee bare?
Whose fury laid thee low?"
-- "Sin for my footsteps twined her snare,
And Death has dealt the blow!"

"Can art no medicine for thy wound,
Nor nature strength supply?"
-- "They saw me bleeding on the ground,
And pass'd in silence by!"

"But, sufferer! is no comfort near,
Thy terrors to remove?"
-- "There is to whom my soul was dear,
But I have scorn'd His love."

"What if His hand were nigh to save
From endless death thy days?"
-- "The soul He ransom'd from the grave
Should live but to His praise!"

"Rise then, oh rise! His health embrace,
With heavenly strength renew'd;
-- And, such as is thy Saviour's grace,
Such be thy gratitude!"





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