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8s & 7s, peculiar.
A new creature.
2 Cor. 5:17.
Since first thy word awaked my heart,
Like light new dawning o’er me,
Where’er I turn my eyes, thou art
All light and love before me.
2 Naught else I feel, or hear, or see,
All bonds of earth I sever;
Thee, O my Lord, and only thee,
I live for, now, and ever.
3 Like him whose fetters dropped away
When light shone o’er his prison,
My soul now touched by mercy’s ray,
Hath from its chains arisen.
4 And shall the soul thou bidd’st be free,
Return to bondage? Never;
Thee, O my God, and only thee,
I live for, now, and ever.
Moore.