95 NEW every morning is thy love,
Our wakening and uprising prove;
Through sleep and darkness safely brought,
Restored to life, and power, and thought.
2 New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven,
New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
3 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.
4 The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we need to ask,
Room to deny ourselves, a road
To bring us daily nearer God.
5 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.
96 Now that the daylight fills the sky,
We lift our hearts to God on high:
That he, in all we do or say,
Would keep us free from harm to-day.
2 Would guard our hearts and tongues from strife,
From anger's din would hide our life :
From all ill sights would turn our eyes :
Would close our ears from vanities.
3 Would keep our inmost conscience pure,
Our souls from folly would secure ;
Would bid us check the pride of sense
With due and holy abstinence.
4 So we, when this new day is gone,
And night, in turn, is drawing on,
With conscience by the world unstained,
Shall praise his name for victory gained.
HINE forth, O Sun of boundless love,
The night within our souls remove;
Be thou our Light, be thou our Guide,
O'er every thought and step preside.
2 The light of truth to us display,
That we may know and choose thy way;
Plant holy fear within each heart,
That we may ne'er from God depart.
GOD of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
And sendest the early morning ray,
And lightest the glow of perfect day.
2 Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keepest the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
III. Evening.
10 THOU true life of all that live,
Who dost unmoved all motion sway;
Who dost the morn and evening give,
And through its changes guide the day.
2 Thy light upon our evening pour,
So may our souls no sunset see;
And death to us an open door,
To an eternal morning be.
98 SAVIOUR, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing,
Thou canst save and thou canst heal.
2 Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrows past us fly,
Angel guards from thee surround us,
We are safe, if thou art nigh.
3 Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from thee;
Thou art he who, never weary,
Watchest where thy people be.
UN of my soul! thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if thou be near;
Oh! may no earth-born cloud arise,
To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.
2 When the soft dews of kindly sleep
My wearied eyelids gently steep,
Be my last thought, how sweet to rest
With thy divine protection blest.
3 Abide with me from morn till eve,
For without thee I can not live;
Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without thee I dare not die.
4 If some poor wandering child of thine,
Have spurned, to-day, the voice divine,
Now, Lord, the gracious work begin,
Let him no more lie down in sin.
5 Come near, and bless us when we wake,
Ere through the world our way we take;
Till, in the ocean of thy love,
We lose ourselves in heaven above.
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