1 2 3 231. The Song of the Redeemed. What a rapturous song, Join all the glad choirs, Hearts, voices, and lyres; And the burden is" Mercy divine!" Hallelujah! they cry, To the King of the sky, To the great everlasting I AM; Hallelujah to God and the Lamb! The Lamb on the throne, Lo! He dwells with his own, And to rivers of pleasure He leads; With his mercy's full blaze, With the sight of his face, Our beatified spirits He feeds. 4 Our foreheads proclaim His ineffable name, Our bodies his glory display; A day without night, And eternity seems as a day! THE CHRISTIAN PSALMIST. PART III. SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 232. Morning. 1 AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun, 2 Thy precious time mispent, redeem; 3 In conversation be sincere ; Keep conscience, as the noon-tide, clear; 5 Awake, awake, ye heavenly choir; 6 May I, like you, in God delight, 7 Lord, I my vows to Thee renew; 8 Direct, control, suggest, this day, That all my powers, with all their might, 9 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, 233. Morning. 1 LORD of my life, O may thy praise 2 Preserved by thy almighty arm, 3 While many spent the night in sighs, In gentle sleep I closed my eyes, 4 When sleep, death's semblance, o'er me spread, And I unconscious lay, Thy watchful care was round my bed, To guard my feeble clay. 50 let the same almighty care My waking hours attend; |