Obedient to Thy holy will,
Let all my faculties combined
Thy just desires, O God, fulfil!
From thee derived, eternal King,
To thee our noblest powers we bring:
O, may thy hand direct our wandering way!
O, bid thy light arise, and chase the clouds away!”
Listen also to the author of the “Night Thoughts,” and hear his acknowledgment of the true sources of poetic inspiration:—
“O Thou bless’d Spirit: whether the Supreme,
Great ante-mundane Father; in whose breast,