With Power Comes Responsibility

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



How great is our God and wonderful too?
O Wonderful Counselor and friend
You watch over us and care for our needs
You care for our needs till the end
How many men think that they rule in this world
They say: You can’t do this on my time
It seems they don’t believe you are Sovereign O Lord
And you can give reason to rhyme
They watch their words closely as they do their good deeds
If a lie seems to profit they use it
They don’t seem to know that you gave them their power
And that is why that they abuse it

Have mercy on their souls Lord
For they do not know what they do
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Written on April 30, 2014

Submitted by dawg4jesus on June 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCBXDEDCFXF EA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 580
Words 121
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 2

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