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And if I should, said He,<br />

Bestow this Jewel also on my Creature,<br />

He would adore my Gifts in stead of Me,<br />

And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature.<br />

So Both should Losers be.<br />

Yet let him keep the rest,<br />

But keep them with repining Restlesness:<br />

Let him be Rich and Weary, That at least,<br />

If Goodness leade him not, yet Weariness<br />

May toss him to my Breast.<br />

Submission 296<br />

But that Thou art my Wisdom, Lord,<br />

And both mine Eyes are Thine,<br />

My Soul would be extremely stirred<br />

At missing my Design.<br />

Were it not better to bestow<br />

Some Place and Power on me?<br />

Then should Thy Praises with me grow,<br />

And share in my Degree.<br />

But when I thus dispute and grieve,<br />

I do resume my Sight,<br />

And pilfering what I once did give,<br />

Disseize Thee of Thy Right.<br />

How know I, if Thou shouldst me raise,<br />

That I should then raise Thee?<br />

Perhaps Great Places and Thy Praise<br />

Do not so well agree.<br />

Wherefore unto my Gift I stand;<br />

I will no more advise:<br />

Only do Thou lend me Thy Hand,<br />

Since Thou hast both mine Eyes.<br />

296Herbert, Temple, #70 (pp. 87–88). Wesley published in Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1738), 63; and<br />

Herbert (1773), 32.<br />

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