And guard their lives, from sin?

Thy word the choicest rules imparts

To keep the conscience clean.

2'Tis, like the sun, a heavenly light,

That guides us all the day,

And, through the dangers of the night,

A lamp to lead our way.

3Thy precepts make us truly wise;

We hate the sinner's road:

We hate our own vain thoughts that rise,