Stanzas, On The Same Occasion

stanzas, on the same occasion

why am i loth to leave this earthly se?

have i so found it full of pleasing charms?

some drops of joy with draughts of ill between—

some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing storms,

is it departing pangs my soul alarms?

or death's unlovely, dreary, dark abode?

fuilt, fuilt, my terrors are in arms:

i tremble to approa angry god,

and justly smart beh his sin-avenging rod.

fain would i say, “five my foul offence,”

fain promise never more to disobey;

but, should my author health again dispense,

again i might desert fair virtue's way;

again in folly's part might go astray;

agai the brute and sink the man;

then how should i for heavenly mercy pray

who act so ter heavenly mercy's plan?

who sin so oft have mourn'd, yet to temptation r

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