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First Line: Methought I heard a voice upon me call
Last Line: Thy voice it was I heard, meek piety.
Subject(s): Piety


METHOUGHT I heard a voice upon me call,
As listless in desponding mood I lay,
Whiling the melancholy hour away,
Mid fears that did my fondest hopes enthral.
'T was not the trumpet voice of fame I heard,
Nor fortune's, nurse of impotence and care;
Nor yet the moanings deep of fell despair.
But oh! it was the voice of one that stirr'd
In every leaf! Sweet, sweet the accents came,
And stole in pure affection to my heart,
Healing within wounds bleeding 'neath the smart
Of bitterest wo. Up sprang my gladden'd frame
Restored, as henceforth brighter days to see; --
Thy voice it was I heard, meek Piety.





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