NEW every morning is the Love
Our wakening and uprising prove
Through sleep and darkness safely brought,
Restored to life, and power, and thought.
New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us as we pray-
New perils past, new sins forgiven,
New thoughts of GOD, new hopes of Heaven.
If, on our daily course, our mind
Be set to hallow all we find,
New treasures still of countless price
GOD will provide for sacrifice.
The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we ought to ask-
Room to deny ourselves-a road
To bring us daily nearer GOD.
Seek we no more-content with these,
Let present rapture, comfort, ease,
As Heaven shall bid them, come and go-
The secret this of rest below.
Only, O LORD, in Thy dear Love
Fit us for perfect rest above;
And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.
GOD of the morning, at Whose Voice
The cheerful sun makes haste to rise,
And, like a giant, doth rejoice
To run his journey through the skies!
O, like the sun, may we fulfil
Th'appointed duties of the day,
And, with glad mind and constant will,
March on, and keep our heavenly way!
LORD! Thy commands are clean and pure,
And give sweet light to darkened eyes;
Thy threatening's just, Thy promise sure;
Thy teachings make the simple wise.
Give us Thy counsel for our guide,
And safe conduct us to Thy Bliss;
All our desires and hopes beside
Are faint and cold, compared with this.
You, that have spent the silent night
In sleep and quiet rest,
And joy to see the cheerful light,
That riseth in the East
Now raise your voice and rouse your heart,
And help me now to sing
Each willing soul, come, bear a part
To praise th' Eternal King.
Bethink us, as the night did last
But for a little while,
And heavenly day, now night is past,
Doth show his pleasant smile,
So may we hope to see God's Face
At last, in heaven on high,
When we have changed this mortal place
For immortality.
Unto which bliss and glorious gain
GOD grant us all to come,
And send us, after worldly pain,
In Heaven to have our home;
Where we may all enjoy that light,
Which never shall decay:
LORD, for Thy Mercy, lend us might
To see that joyful day!
Now that the sun is gleaming bright,
Implore we, bending low,
That He, the Uncreated Light,
May guide us as we go.
No sinful word, nor deed of wrong,
Nor thoughts that idly rove-
But simple truth be on each tongue,
And in each heart be love!
And, while the hours in order flow, ́
O CHRIST, securely fence
Our gates, beleaguered by the foe-
The gate of every sense.
And grant that to Thine honour, LORD,
Our daily toil may tend:
May we begin it at Thy Word,
And in Thy Favour end.
O THOU, who, when Thy holy Will
Creation had begun,
Wouldst neither stay nor rest, until
Thy six days' work was done!
Thou callest us to work to-day:
O grant us good success;
And in His sight, Whom we obey,
Our humble labours bless.
Teach us, whate'er we find to do,
To do with all our might,
As working ever in Thy view,
If out of human sight.
They, who before Thy Presence bow,
With Thy full peace are blest:
Make us content to labour now,
That we may share their Rest.
HOLY Being, One and Three,
Ruler of the world, to Thee,
In this hour of morning calm,
Hear us chant our early psalm.
If this night the foe have wrought
Evil deed or noxious thought,
Far from us the snare of hell
May Thy heavenly power repel.
May no sin our bodies stain;
May our hearts no dulness chain;
Nor the lukewarm spirit faint,
Sickening by corruption's taint.
Rather Thou, most Holy, shine
On our hearts with light divine,
That each day, as round it goes,
Guiltless pass and peaceful close.
Thus again at evening dim
May we raise our grateful hymn,
Ruler of the world, to Thee,
Holy Being, One and Three!
CHRIST, whose Glory fills the skies-
CHRIST, the true and only Light—
Sun of Righteousness, arise,
Triumph o'er the shades of night:
Day-spring from on high, be near!
Day-star, in our hearts appear!
Dark and cheerless is the morn,
Unaccompanied by Thee;
Joyless is the day's return,
Till Thy Mercy's beams we see-
Till Thou inward light impart,
Glad our eyes, and warm each heart.
Visit then these souls of ours;
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Waken all our sluggish powers;
Scatter all our unbelief:
More and more Thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.
O LORD and Maker, hear!
O CHRIST, our King, give ear,
And guide our footsteps, lest they stray:
O Blessed Three-in-One,
Protect our course begun,
And bring us safely on our way.
Thy faithful guardian send,
Thine angel, who may tend,
And bring us to Thy holy seat:
Be Thy right Hand stretched out,
Thy left be round about,
In every peril that we meet!
And O, good LORD, at last,
Our many wanderings past,
Give us to see Thy realm of light:
Glory to GOD on high
Be paid eternally,
And laud, and majesty, and might!
EVENING HYMNS.
GLORY to Thee, my GOD, this night
For all the blessings of the light:
Keep me, O keep me, King of kings,
Beneath Thine own Almighty wings.
Forgive me, LORD, for Thy dear Son,
The ill that I this day have done,
That with the world, myself, and Thee,
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
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