GEORGE JOHN ROMANES


I ASK NOT FOR THY LOVE, O LORD

I ASK not for thy Love, O Lord; the days

Can never come when anguish shall atone.

Enough for me were but Thy pity shown

To me, as to the stricken sheep that strays,

With ceaseless cry for unforgotten ways—

Oh, lead me back to pastures I have known,

Or find me in the wilderness alone,