Help me to watch, Lord! day and night,

This blessèd treasure shielding

From unyielding

Foes, who 'gainst us the might

Of Satan's realm are wielding!

My Saviour! Thou in love to me

Hast down to death descended,

And like a murd'rer on the tree

And thief hast been suspended,

Spit on, despis'd and wounded sore,