Happy the Man, Who Poor and Low

Happy the man

who poor and low

Less good­ness in him­self con­ceives

Than Christ doth of His serv­ant know

Who saved from self-re­flect­ion lives

Unconscious of the grace be­stowed

Simply re­signed

and lost in God.

Himself he can­not per­fect call

Or to the mean­est saint pre­fer

Meanest him­self

and least of all:

And when the glo­ri­ous char­ac­ter

His spot­less soul with Christ re­ceives

His fate—to that great day he leaves.