Hear Me, O God!
A broken heart

Is my best part:

Use still Thy rod,

That I may prove

Therein Thy love.

If Thou hadst not

Been stern to me,

But left me free,

I had forgot

Myself and Thee.

For sin's so sweet,

As minds ill bent

Rarely repent,

Until they meet

Their punishment.

xxviii the nativity
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