The voice of care and sin?...
He speaks! He answers my poor faltering prayer!
He opens heaven’s lattice wide;
He bids me bathe my brow in heavenly airs
Like to a flowing tide!
He calls; He gives unto my famished soul,
Unto my eager heart, its meed:
He breathes upon me with the breath of song,
And O, my soul is freed,
And I am lifted up and up, and held