Thou, My Delight

O mirror, mirror of the Word:

Thy trenchant thrusts have I incurred

to bare my lusts; have done with Paul!

I am the vilest of them all!

Appointed trials, this heart, enflame:

ignite its courses, and reclaim

that right remorse, that grave concern

with godly fear, from sin to turn.

O Holy Spirit, ope Thy sluice;

affections' bourn again unloose!

my spirit, mourning sin endured,

still yearneth for its Hope secured.

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inspired by the sanctifying work

of the Holy Spirit within the hearts

of the saints, especially conviction of sin

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the end of the first and second lines rhyme, then the middle of the second and third lines, then the end of the third and fourth lines, and so on

titled from "Be Thou My Vision"