{"id":4554,"date":"2018-03-03T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T03:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:26:31","slug":"o-thou-my-soul-forget-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"O Thou, My Soul, Forget No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O thou, my soul, forget no more<br \/>\nThe Friend who all thy misery bore;<br \/>\nLet every idol be forgot,<br \/>\nBut, O my soul, forget Him not.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus for thou a body takes,<br \/>\nThy guilt assumes, thy fetters breaks,<br \/>\nDischarging all thy dreadful debt;<br \/>\nAnd canst thou e&#8217;er such love forget?<\/p>\n<p>Renounce thy works and ways, with grief,<br \/>\nAnd fly to this most sure relief;<br \/>\nNor Him forget, who left His throne,<br \/>\nAnd for thy life gave up His own.<\/p>\n<p>Infinite truth and mercy shine,<br \/>\nIn Him, and He Himself is thine:<br \/>\nAnd canst thou, then, with sin beset,<br \/>\nSuch charms, such matchless charms, forget?<\/p>\n<p>Ah! no\u2014till life itself depart,<br \/>\nHis name shall cheer and warm my heart;<br \/>\nAnd lisping this, from earth I\u2019ll rise<br \/>\nAnd join the chorus of the skies.<\/p>\n<p>Ah! no\u2014when all things else expire,<br \/>\nAnd perish in the general fire;<br \/>\nThis Name all others shall survive,<br \/>\nAnd through eternity shall live!<\/p>\n<p>Krishna Pal<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">1801<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O thou, my soul, forget no more The Friend who all thy misery bore; Let every idol be forgot, But, O my soul, forget Him not. Jesus for thou a body takes, Thy guilt assumes, thy fetters breaks, Discharging all thy dreadful debt; And canst thou e&#8217;er such love forget? Renounce thy works and ways, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O Thou, My Soul, Forget No More&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}