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WAKE, I wake, ye heavenly choir,
May your
devotion me inspire,
That I like you my age may spend,
Like you may on my God attend.

2 May I like you in God delight,
Have all day long my God in sight,
Perform like you my Maker's will-
I never more do ill.

O may

3 Glory to Thee, who safe hast kept,
And hast refreshed me while I slept :
Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake,
I may of endless light partake.

4 Lord, I my vows to Thee renew;

Scatter my sins as morning dew;

Guard my first springs of thought and will;
And with Thyself my spirit fill.

5 Direct, control, suggest this day,
All I design, or do, or say;

That all my powers, with all their might,
In Thy sole glory may unite.

6 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host:

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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EW every morning is the love
Our wakening and uprising prove,
Through sleep and darkness safely brought,
Restored to life and power and thought.

2 New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven,
New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

3 If on our daily course our mind
Be set to hallow all we find,

New treasures still, of countless price,
God will provide for sacrifice.

4 The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we ought to ask ;
Room to deny ourselves; a road
To bring us daily nearer God.

5 Seek we no more; content with these,
Let present rapture, comfort, ease,

As heaven shall bid them, come and go :-
The secret this of rest below.

6 Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love
Fit us for perfect rest above:
And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.

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HROUGH the night by Thee preserved,
Lord, we come to own Thy care:

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Hadst Thou done as we deserved,

Death and wrath our portion were.
Saviour, pardon all our sin;

Let this day with Thee begin;
Every hour,

Every power,

Through the day to Thee be given-
Every day till called to heaven.

YOME, my soul, thou must be waking-
Now is breaking

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O'er the earth another day :

Come, to Him who made this splendour
See thou render

All thy feeble strength can pay.

2 Gladly hail the light returning :
Ready burning

Be the incense of thy powers:
For the night is safely ended—
God hath tended

With His care thy helpless hours.
3 Pray that He may prosper ever
Each endeavour,

When thine aim is good and true;
But that He may ever thwart thee,
And convert thee,

When thou evil wouldst pursue.

4 Think that He thy ways beholdethHe unfoldeth

Every fault that lurks within;
Every stain of shame glossed over
Can discover,

And discern each deed of sin.

5 Fettered to the fleeting hours,
All our powers,

Vain and brief, are borne away:
Time, my soul, thy ship is steering,
Onward veering,

To the gulph of death a prey.

6 May'st thou then on life's last morrow,

Free from sorrow,

Pass away in slumber sweet;

And, released from death's dark sadness,
Rise in gladness,

That far brighter Sun to greet.

7 Only God's free gifts abuse not,

Light refuse not,

But His Spirit's voice obey:

Soon shall joy thy brow be wreathing,
Splendour breathing

Fairer than the fairest day.

8 Round the gifts His bounty showers Walls and towers

Girt with flames thy God shall rear: Angel legions to defend thee

Shall attend thee,

Hosts whom Satan's self shall fear.

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HRIST, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only Light,

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Sun of Righteousness, arise,

Triumph o'er the shades of night:
Day-spring from on high, draw near;
Day-star, in our hearts appear.

2 Dark and cheerless is the morn,
Unaccompanied by Thee;
Joyless is the day's return,

Till Thy mercy's beams we see ;
Till they pour their gladdening light
Through the darkness of our night.
3 Visit, then, these souls of Thine,

Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill us, O Thou Light Divine;
Scatter all our unbelief:

More and more Thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.

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ORD of our life, whose tender care
Hath led us on till now,

Here lowly at the hour of prayer
Before Thy throne we bow;

We bless Thy gracious hand, and pray
Forgiveness for another day.

2 O may we daily, hourly, strive
In heavenly grace to grow;
To Thee and to Thy glory live,
Dead else to all below;

Tread in the path our Saviour trod,

Though thorny, yet the path to God.

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