# Encompassed

Language: en  
Author: \~Augustus M\. Toplady  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, November/December 2005, Number 6  
Source pages: 36  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/article-c5c62fa7-3024-4d4c-9aa9-de190736188c/>
Original PDF: 2005\-11\-12\-remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, November/December 2005](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2005-11/>)

![Sunlight shines through dark clouds, with the poem printed over the sky](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/c5c62fa7-3024-4d4c-9aa9-de190736188c-1.jpg>)

***Encompassed with clouds of distress,  
 And tempted all hope to resign,  
 I pant for the light of thy face,  
 That I in thy beauty may shine\.  
 Disheartened with waiting so long,  
 I sink at thy feet with my load;  
 All plaintive I pour out my song,  
 And stretch forth my hands unto God\.***

***Shine, Lord, and my terror shall cease;  
 The blood of atonement apply;  
 And lead me to Jesus for peace,  
 The Rock that is higher than I\.  
 Speak, Savior, for sweet is thy voice;  
 Thy presence is fair to behold;  
 I thirst for thy Spirit, with cries  
 And groanings that cannot be told\.***