Lines, I Would Frame All My Doings To Please Thee, My God!

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Title:     Lines, I Would Frame All My Doings To Please Thee, My God!
Author: Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow [More Titles by Bigelow]

"They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God.
Hosea, 5:4."

I would frame all my doings to please thee, my God!
'Tis from thee all my mercies proceed;
I would frame all my doings to serve thee, my God!
For thy service is freedom indeed.

I would frame all my doings to please thee, my God!
But how feeble my best efforts are;
Ah! how needful for me is thy chastening rod,
And a proof of thy fatherly care.

I would frame all my doings to serve thee, my God!
But my goodness extends not to thee;
And when on well doing I'm fully intent,
Alas! evil is present with me.

My Creator, Preserver, Redeemer and King,
I would tax all my powers to obey;
But to Him let me look for the help that I need,
Who is the life, the light, and the way.

Weston, Jan. 21, 1853.

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Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow's poem: Lines, I Would Frame All My Doings To Please Thee, My God!

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