In humble prayer and fervent praise.
On the words ‘merciful and gracious’ in Exod. xxxiv. 6 he comments
Mercy is Thy distinguished Name,
And suits the sinner best.
On the twenty-ninth verse of the same chapter, ‘Moses wist not that his face shone,’ he writes
Thine image if Thou stamp on me,
Let others, Lord, the brightness see,
By me unseen, unknown.
As these verses are buried in the last four volumes of the Poetical Works, I venture to quote a few others which have, I think, some special value, reminding one at times of Herbert or Crashaw.
‘The Lord went His way’ (Gen. xviii. 33).