Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Evening
By George Washington Doane (17991859)[Born in Trenton, N. J., 1799. Died at Burlington, N. J., 1859. From Life and Writings. 1860.]
Psalm cxli. 2.
Psalm cxli. 2.
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Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord, I would commune with Thee:
Naught escapes, without, within,
Pardon each infirmity,
Open fault and secret sin.
Shall for ever pass away;
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee:
All of man’s infirmity;
Then, from Thine eternal throne,
Jesus, look with pitying eye.