Hymn 307.

II.

ELLESMERE.

Now

OW hath arisen the star of day,
And with his rising let us pray

That we throughout his course be freed
From sinful thought and hurtful deed.

Ο

may

the Lord our tongues restrain
From sounding strife and converse vain
And from His servants' eyesight hide
The toys of vanity and pride.

May He our inner thoughts make pure,
From sins presumptuous us secure,
Grant us to use such abstinence
As may subdue the things of sense.

That we, when night succeeds to day,
And this bright sun hath past away,
Unspotted from the world may raise
To God our Saviour songs of praise.

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