Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SELF-INQUIRY, by ISAAC WATTS


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First Line: Let not soft slumber close my eyes
Last Line: That leads to virtue and to god.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


LET not soft slumber close my eyes,
Before I've recollected thrice
The train of action through the day!
Where have my feet chose out their way?
What have I learnt, where'er I've been,
From all I have heard, from all I've seen?
What know I more that's worth the knowing?
What have I done that's worth the doing?
What have l sought that I shoul shun?
What duty have I left undone?
Or into what new follies run?
These self-inquiries are the road
That leads to virtue and to God.




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