/ Soon, as thou overcamest
I too shall overcome;
And bless the love which kept me
While far away from home,
SAVIOUR, bless us ere we go;
Thy word into our minds instil;
And make our lukewarm hearts to glow
With lowly love and fervent will.
s The day is done, its hours have run;
And thou hast taken count of all,
The scanty triumphs grace hath won,
The broken vow, the frequent fall.
m Grant us, dear Lord, from evil ways
True absolution and release;
And bless us more than in pass'd days
With purity and inward peace.
Do more than pardon; give us joy,
Sweet fear and sober liberty,
And loving hearts without alloy,
That only long to be like thee.
For all we love, the poor, the sad,
The sinful, unto thee we call ;
i O let thy mercy make us glad;
Thou art our Jesus and our All.
m O Saviour, bless us; s night is come,
Through night and darkness near us be ;
i Good angels watch about our home,
And we are one day nearer thee.
m Through life's long day and death's dark night, O blessed Jesus, be our light.
Through the long night-watches,
May thine angels spread
Their white wings above me,
Watching round my bed.
/ When the morning wakens,
Then may I arise
Pure and fresh and sinless
In thy holy eyes.
OW Israel may say, and that truly,
205"N If that the Lord had not our cause maintained;
If that the Lord had not our right sustained,
When cruel men against us furiously
Rose up in wrath, to make of us their prey;
s Then certainly they had devoured us all,
And swallowed quick, for aught that we could deem ;
Such was their rage, as we might well esteem:
And as fierce floods before them all things drown,
So had they brought our soul to death quite down:
The raging streams, with their proud swelling waves,
Had then our soul o'erwhelmed in the deep.
/ But bless'd be God, who doth us safely keep,
And hath not given us for a living prey
Unto their teeth, and bloody cruelty.
E'en as a bird out of the fowler's snare
Escapes away, so is our soul set free;
Broke are their nets, and thus escaped we.
m Therefore our help is in the Lord's great name,
Who heaven and earth by his great power did frame.
206 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, and is,
And shall be ever more.
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