My tried support and sure,
Which, from my youth, has never failed to guide
The changeful course of life’s eventful tide.
Allies and kindred now, and cherished friends,
To kind, protecting love my prayer commends
Of Thy paternal Heart;
To that safe refuge of Christ’s wounded Side
I trust my soul, its frailties there to hide,
When soul and body part,
And from this suffering frame at length set free,