When languor and disease invade
When languor and disease invade. Augustus Montague Toplady* (1740-1778).
This may be found in A Select Collection of Hymns, to be universally sung in all the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapels. Collected by her Ladyship (1780). It was entitled ‘Meditation on God’s love’. It had eight stanzas:
When languor and disease invade This trembling house of clay,’Tis sweet to look beyond our cage, And long to fly away.
Sweet to look inward, and attend The whispers of his love; Sweet to look upward to the place Where Jesus pleads above.
Sweet to look back, and see my name In life’s fair book set down; Sweet to look forward, and behold Eternal joys my own.
Sweet to reflect, how grace divine...
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