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Among the many, I am lost and weary - Return unto thy Rest
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Return unto thy Rest.

In uno quies.

1. Among the many, I am lost and weary;
  they do not take from me the deep unrest.
They make me but more lonely and more dreary;
  they promise fair, but cannot make me blessed. PDF - Midi

2. This heart, thus trying in a thousand centres,
  to find an orbit round which it may roll,
comes back depressed, taught by these vain adventures:
  One centre only stays the restless soul.

3. Only in One is rest for us; true quiet
  for the vexed human heart is from above:
though far removed from toil, and brawl, and riot,
  it cannot rest itself in creature-love.

4. Earth is all motion and disquiet; only
  in One above, who changes not nor moves,
we find repose: there tranquil, but not lonely,
  we rest in One who ever, ever loves.

5. Life is all tempest, o'er time's ocean ranging;
  a troubled morning, and an angry even:
only in One is anchorage unchanging,
  only in One is the eternal haven.

6. Creation rocks; all that is made is moving;
  the strongest, brightest, goodliest, and best:
in One, the ever-fixed and ever-loving,
  in One I anchor, and in One I rest!

Horatius Bonar, The Song of the New Creation, and other pieces, 1872, 33-34.

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