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,

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?

Or into what new follies run?

These self-inquiries are the road

That leads to virtue and to God.