Wesley Corpus

Page 143 "The woman gave her son suck, until she weaned him." I. Sam. i. 23. Not like the mothers in our day, Who of all care themselves divest, And thrust their new-born babes away, And hang them on another's breast. "For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him." I. Sam. i. 27. Whate'er I ask, I surely know, And stedfastly believe, Thou wilt the thing desir'd bestow, Or else a better give; To thee I therefore, Lord, submit My every fond request, And own, adoring at thy feet, Thy will is always best. "I have lent him to the Lord, as long as he liveth." I. Sam. i. 28. Since what I lend or give to thee, Was first thy precious gift to me, In this irrevocable loan, Father, I render thee thine own; Assur'd thou wilt in life's short day My loan an hundred fold repay, And crown me, when thy Son comes down, With glorious life's eternal crown. "There is none holy as the Lord." I. Sam. ii. 2. Holy as thee, O Lord, is none; Thy holiness is all thine own, A drop of that unbounded sea Is ours, a drop deriv'd from thee: And when thy purity we share, Thine only glory we declare, And humbled into nothing, own Holy and pure is God alone.