May save me when I sink, adoring,
Amidst His boundless mercy-sea.
My blessing to my foes be given,
Their curses far from me be driven,
Nor break upon my hallowed bliss;
God needs no studied words from mortals,
A sigh may enter Heaven’s wide portals,—
He could not err, He taught us this.
No songs, no elegy,—death hearkens
To music ne’er though sweet it be: