Who dares deny, that all first fruits are due To God, denies the God-head to be true: Who doubts, those fruits God can with gain restore, Doth, by his doubt, distrust his promise more. He can, he will, and with large interest pay, What (at his liking) he will take away. Then royal Charles, and Mary, do not grutch That the Almighty's will to you is such: But thank his greatness, and his goodness too; And think all still the best, that he will do. That thought shall make, he will this loss supply With a long, large, and blessed posterity! For God, whose essence is so infinite, Cannot but heap that grace, he will require. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ADMETUS; TO MY FRIEND RALPH WALDO EMERSON by EMMA LAZARUS SUMMER SHIRT SALE by CARL SANDBURG PRESIDENT GARFIELD by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT by EDWARD LEAR A PSALM OF LIFE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE QUAKER WIDOW by BAYARD TAYLOR TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY BURNS by ROBERT BURNS |