Blessings, when reason’s awful power

Gave thought a bolder range;

Blessings of friends, which to my door

Unasked, unhoped, have come;

And choicer still, a countless store 15

Of eager smiles at home.

Yet, Lord, in memory’s fondest place

I shrine those seasons sad,

When looking up, I saw thy face

In kind austereness clad. 20