Sensitiveness

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  Time was I shrank from what was right,
  From fear of what was wrong;
  I would not brave the sacred fight
  Because the foe was strong.

  But now I cast that finer sense
  And sorer shame aside;
  Such dread of sin was indolence,
  Such aim at heaven was pride.

  So when my Saviour calls I rise,
  And calmly do my best;
  Leaving to Him, with silent eyes
  Of hope and fear, the rest.

  I step, I mount, where He has led;
  Men count my haltings o'er;
  I know them; yet, though self I dread,
  I love His precept more.

© John Henry Newman