LORD, MANY TIMES.
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Lord, many times I am aweary quite Of mine own self, my sin, my vanity— Yet be not Thou, or I am lost outright, Weary of me. And hate against myself I often bear, And enter with myself in fierce debate: Take Thou my part against myself, nor share In that just hate! Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse We know of our own selves, they also knew: Lord, Holy One! if Thou who knowest worse Shouldst loathe us too! —Richard Chenevix Trench.