Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NOTHING TO WISH OR TO FEAR, by JOHN NEWTON


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NOTHING TO WISH OR TO FEAR, by                    
First Line: His name yields the richest perfume
Last Line: If jesus would dwell with me there.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


His name yields the richest perfume,
And sweeter than music his voice;
His presence disperses my gloom,
And makes all within me rejoice;
I should, were He always thus nigh,
Have nothing to wish or to fear;
No mortal so happy as I,
My summer would last all the year.

Content with beholding His face,
My all to His pleasure resigned,
No changes of season or place
Would make any change in my mind;
While blest with a sense of His love
A palace a toy would appear;
And prisons would palaces prove
If Jesus would dwell with me there.





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