Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHALL WE FORGET, by WILLIAM MITCHELL


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SHALL WE FORGET, by                    
First Line: Jesus! Thy love shall we forget
Last Line: Our constancy shall prove.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


Jesus! Thy love shall we forget,
And never bring to mind
The grace that paid our hopeless debt,
And bade us pardon find?

Shall we Thy life of grief forget,
Thy fasting and Thy prayer;
Thy locks with mountain vapors wet,
To save us from despair?

Gethsemane can we forget--
Thy struggling agony
When night lay dark on Olivet,
And none to watch with Thee?

Our sorrows and our sins were laid
On Thee, alone on Thee;
Thy precious blood our ransom paid--
Thine all the glory be!

Life's brightest joys we may forget--
Our kindred cease to love;
But He who paid our hopeless debt,
Our constancy shall prove.





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