Or I felt some strange alarms,

Then my mother's voice would call me,

To the shelter of her arms.

Now what bids my heart rejoice,

Clasped in arms I cannot see?

Hark, I hear a soothing voice

Sweetly whispering, Come to me.

Yes, it calls thee from on high;

Come to God's most holy mountain;

Thou hast drunk the stream of life;—