To change the fire of sin to light of faith supreme.
The ocean’s waters are a mere drop in Thy hand;
The streams of mercy, fire of wrath, at Thy command.
If Thou so will, the fire a pleasant stream may be.
And at Thy word, a lake a fiery pit we’d see.455
From Thee spring our devotions, supplications, prayers.
’Tis Thou deliverest the victims from their slayers.
Without our supplication, Thou entreaty gavest.
The stores of Thy great mercy for all men Thou savest.
The hare, for his deliverance, jubilant set out,