Lord! thou hast searched and seen me through
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Lord! thou hast searched and seen me through;Thine eye commands with piercing viewMy rising and my resting hours,My heart and flesh, with all their powers.
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My thoughts, before they are my own,Are to my God distinctly known;He knows the words I mean to speakEre from my opening lips they break.
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Within thy circling power I stand;On every side I find thy hand;Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,I am surrounded still with God.
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Amazing knowledge, vast and great!What large extent! what lofty hight!My soul, with all the powers I boast,Is in the boundless prospect lost.
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O, may these thoughts possess my breastWhere'er I rove, where'er I rest;Nor let my weaker passions dareConsent to sin, for God is there!