Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VI. Human Experience | | Self-Inquiry | | Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
| | | LET not soft slumber close my eyes, | |
| Before I ’ve recollected thrice | |
| The train of action through the day! | |
| Where have my feet chose out their way? | |
| What have I learnt, where’er I ’ve been, | 5 |
| From all I have heard, from all I ’ve seen? | |
| What know I more that ’s worth the knowing? | |
| What have I done that ’s worth the doing? | |
| What have I sought that I should shun? | |
| What duty have I left undone? | 10 |
| Or into what new follies run? | |
| These self-inquiries are the road | |
| That leads to virtue and to God. | | | | |
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