Saw through the tears and anguish of our pain—
Our quickened flood of grief and blinding pain—
The fiat of Thy law
The joy and clamor of our pride restrain!
Humbly we kneel!
Oh! guide us still, our Father, through the sea!
Our way has led us through a great Red Sea!
And we have felt the seal
Of blood’s baptizing—pensioned thus of Thee!
Now through a year