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I will sing of the mercies, etc.
Father supreme! thou high and holy One!
To thee we bow;
Now, when the burden of the day is gone,
Devoutly, now.
2 From age to age unchanging, still the same
All-good thou art;
Hallowed for ever be thy reverend name
In every heart!
3 When the glad morn upon the hills was spread,
Thy smile was there;
Now, as the darkness gathers overhead,
We feel thy care.
4 Night spreads her shade upon another day
For ever past;
So, o’er our faults, thy love, we humbly pray,
A vail may cast.
5 Silence and calm, o’er hearts by earth distrest,
Now sweetly steal;
So every fear that struggles in the breast
Shall faith conceal.
6 Thou, through the dark, wilt watch above our sleep
With eye of love;
And thou wilt wake us, when the sunbeams leap
The hills above.
7 O, may each heart its gratitude express
As life expands,
And find the triumph of its happiness
In thy commands!