In storms and hurricanes abide,
Firm as the mount of God.
Often only two or three verses can be taken from a long poem, as in Ps. iii.—
Thou, Lord, art a shield for me.[153]
and Ps. ix.—
Thee will I praise with all my heart.
Here the whole psalm, as it appears in the Poetical Works, consists of fourteen verses, most of them impossible for singing in a Christian Church, but there are four good verses, especially this, with its tender trustfulness that the humble seeker must at length find his Saviour—
A helpless soul that looks to Thee
Is sure at last Thy face to see,
And all Thy goodness to partake;