A Paean to Christ's Power

                                  (From "The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan)






"O world of wonders!  (I can say no less)
That I should be preserved in that distress
That I have met with here!  O blessed be
That  hand that from it hath delivered me!
Dangers in darkness, devils, Hell, and sin,
Did compass me, while I this Vale was in;
Yea, snares, and pits, and traps, and nets did lie
My path about, that worthless silly I
Might have been catched, entangled, and cast down:
But since I live let JESUS wear the Crown."