259    C.M.     WIlliam Cowper
Resignation. Job 5. 19; Ps. 10. 17; Luke 22. 35

1 O Lord, my best desire fulfil,
  And help me to resign
  Life, health, and comfort to thy will,
  And make thy pleasure mine.

2 Why should I shrink at thy command,
  Whose love forbids my fears?
  Or tremble at the gracious hand
  That wipes away my tears?

3 No; let me rather freely yield
  What most I prize to thee,
  Who never hast a good withheld,
  Or wilt withhold from me.

4 Thy favour all my journey through,
  Thou art engaged to grant;
  What else I want, or think I do,
  ’Tis better still to want.

5 Wisdom and mercy guide my way;
  Shall I resist them both –
  A poor blind creature of a day,
  And crushed before the moth?

6 But ah! my inmost spirit cries,
  Still bind me to thy sway,
  Else the next cloud that veils my skies
  Drives all these thoughts away.