967    L.M.     WIlliam Cowper
“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.” James 5. 13

1 God of my life, to thee I call;
  Afflicted at thy feet I fall;
  When the great water-floods prevail,
  Leave not my trembling heart to fail.

2 Friend of the friendless and the faint,
  Where should I lodge my deep complaint?
  Where but with thee, whose open door
  Invites the helpless and the poor?

3 Did ever mourner plead with thee,
  And thou refuse that mourner’s plea?
  Does not the word still fixed remain,
  That none shall seek thy face in vain?

4 That were a grief I could not bear,
  Didst thou not hear and answer prayer;
  But a prayer-hearing, answering God
  Supports me under every load.

5 Poor though I am, despised, forgot,
  Yet God, my God, forgets me not;
  And he is safe, and must succeed,
  For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead.