To serve as messengers of heaven!
12. Deep in my heart that gift I hide;
I change it not away,
For patriot-warrior’s hour of pride,
Or statesman’s tranquil[632] sway;
For poet’s fire, or pleader’s skill
To pierce the soul and tame the will.
13. O! may we follow undismayed[633]
Where’er our God shall call!
And may His Spirit’s present aid