Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Poems (1836). VI. Let Me Be with TheeCharlotte Elliott (17891871)
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My Saviour, my eternal Rest;
Then only will this longing heart
Be fully and for ever blest.
Thy unveiled glory to behold;
Then only will this wayward heart
Cease to be treacherous, faithless, cold.
Where spotless saints Thy Name adore;
Then only will this sinful heart
Be evil and defiled no more.
Where none can die, whence none remove,
Then only will this cleansèd heart
Reflect the fulness of Thy love.