DEDICATION CHANT. L.M. L. MARSHALL (by permission).
Watchfulness. EXETER COL. 2 Though every earthly trust may break,
1 GREAT God,
my Father and my Friend,
On whom I cast my constant care,
On whom for all things I depend,
To thee I raise my humble prayer.
2 Endue me with a holy fear;
The frailty of my heart reveal:
Sin and its snares are always near;
Thee may I always nearer feel.
3 Oh that to thee my constant mind
May with a steady flame aspire;
Pride in its earliest motions find,
And check the rise of wrong desire!
4 Oh that my watchful soul may fly
The first perceived approach of sin;
Look up to thee when danger's nigh,
And feel thy fear control within!
Infinite might belongs to thee;
Though every earthly friend forsake,
Unchangeable thou still wilt be.
3 Though clouds may gather darkly round,
They cannot veil us from thy sight;
Though vain all human aid be found,
Thou every grief canst turn to light.
4 All things thy wise designs fulfil,
In earth beneath, and heaven above;
And good breaks out from every ill,
Through faith in thine encircling love.
300. For Steadiness of Principle. HENRY MOORE.
1 AMIDST a world of hopes and fears,
A wild of cares and toils and tears,
Where foes alarm, and dangers threat,
And pleasures kill, and glories cheat;
2 Shed down, O Lord! a heavenly ray
To guide me in the doubtful way;
And o'er me hold thy shield of power,
To guard me in the dangerous hour.