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The Well is Deep [Poem]

            The Well is Deep              (John iv.)                  "The well is deep." Look back into the purposes of God, And scan Eternity. Trace to their source His wisdom and His power. Fathom, if thou canst, His everlasting mercy. Should thy brain Grow dizzy, and refuse to sound such depths, Confess thy feebleness, and meekly say-                       "The well is deep." "The well is deep."   Take for thy longest line The cords of vanity- the rope of sins Unnumbered. Choose then the heaviest weight; Take thee thine own poor hardened heart of stone: Now plumb the depths of God's unbounded love. They lead seems light- thy lengthened line run out- E'en with such instruments thou hast but plunged Beneath the surface of the tide.  Below, Far, far below, in depths unfathomable, Springs undisturbed, the ceaseless flow of love, Embosomed in eternity.  Here rest, And humbly bend the knee, and own aga