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My God, permit me not to be 
 My God, permit me not to be A stranger to myself and thee; Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove, Forgetful of my highest love. 
 Why should my passions mix with earth, And thus debase my heav'nly birth? Why should I cleave to things below. And all my purest joys forego? 
 Call me away from flesh and sense; Thy grace, O Lord, can draw me thence: I would obey the voice divine, And all inferior joys resign.