Something of the naught in me.

Ah! I saw Thy patient love

Watching o’er me year on year;

Guarding, guiding, move for move—

Always faithful, always near:

Saw Thy pardon’s ceaseless flow

Evermore my soul bedew;

Washing scarlet white as snow,[[169]]

Sere and blight to morning-new:

Saw this self—how weak, how base!—