Shining around thee, through thy very tears,
Will yet sustain me! Let us call on Him!
Let us kneel down, as we have knelt so oft,
Thy pure cheek touching mine, and call on Him,
Th’ all-pitying One, to aid.
[They kneel.
Oh, look on us,
Father above!—in tender mercy look
On us, thy children!—through th’ o’ershadowing cloud
Of sorrow and mortality, send aid—