Pleas-ant are Thy courts below,

0, my spirit longs and faints For the converse

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sing His

power and His love. Our shield and de- fender, the

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An-cient of Days, Pa - vil-ioned in splendor and gird - ed with praise.

2 0, tell of His might, O, sing of His grace!
Whose robe is the light, whose canopy, space.

His chariots of wrath the deep thunder-clouds form,
And dark is His path on the wings of the storm.

3 The earth, with its store of wonders untold,
Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old,
Hath 'stablished it fast by a changeless decree,
And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.

4 Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light,
It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.

5 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail.
Thy mercies how tender! how firm to the end!
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!

6 O measureless Might! ineffable Love!
While angels delight to hymn Thee above,
The humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
With true adoration shall lisp to Thy praise.

tor, Saviour, King, Let earth, let heav'n, Ho-san - na sing!

2 Hosanna, Lord! Thine angels cry;
Hosanna, Lord! Thy saints reply;
Above, beneath us, and around,
The dead and living swell the sound.
Hosanna, Lord! Hosanna in the highest!

3 O Saviour, with protecting care,

Return to this Thy house of prayer,

Assembled in Thy sacred name,

Where we Thy parting promise claim.
Hosanna, Lord! Hosanna in the highest!

4 But, chiefest, in our cleanséd breast,
Eternal bid Thy Spirit rest,

And make our secret soul to be
A temple, pure, and worthy Thee!

Hosanna, Lord! Hosanna in the highest!

5 So, in the last and dreadful day,
When earth and heaven shall melt away,
Thy flock, redeem'd from sinful stain,
Shall swell the sound of praise again.
Hosanna, Lord! Hosanna in the highest!

Bishop Reginald Heber, 1811

15 RAYNOLDS 10. 10. 10. 10

Arr. from Felix Mendelssohn

1. Fa-ther, again in Jesus' name we meet, And bow in pen-i-tence beneath Thy feet;

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A-gain to Thee our fee-ble voi-ces raise, To sue for mer-cy, and to sing Thy praise.

2 0, we would bless Thee for Thy ceaseless care,
And all Thy work from day to day declare!
Is not our life with hourly mercies crowned?
Does not Thine arm encircle us around?

3 Alas! unworthy of Thy boundless love,
Too oft with careless feet from Thee we rove;
But now, encouraged by Thy voice, we come,
Returning sinners, to a Father's home.

4 O, by that name in which all fulness dwells,
O, by that love which every love excels,
O, by that blood so freely shed for sin,
Open blest mercy's gate, and take us in!

HENDON 7.7.7.7

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Lucy E. G. Whitmore, 1824

Rev. H. A. Caesar Malan, 1827

1. Lord, we come before Thee now, At Thy feet we hum - bly bow; O, do not Our

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suit disdain! Shall we seek Thee, Lord, in vain? Shall we seek Thee, Lord, in vain?