Let our glad thanksgivings be

To Thy throne, O Lord, ascending,—

Incense of our hearts to Thee.

3 Thou, whose favors without number

All our days with gladness bless,

Let Thine eye, that knows no slumber,

Guard our hours of helplessness.

4 Then, though conscious we are sleeping

In the outer courts of death,

Safe beneath a Father’s keeping,