MELCOMBE.

L.M.

SAMUEL WEBBE, sen., 1792.

Amen.

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1 NEW every morning is the 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 Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be,
As more of heaven in each we see;
Some softening gleam of love and prayer
Shall dawn on every cross and care.

5 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.

6 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. Amen.

GERMAN.

Amen.

1 Up to the throne of God is borne
The voice of praise at early morn,
And He accepts the punctual hymn
Sung as the light of day grows dim,

a Nor will He turn His ear aside

From holy offerings at noontide;
Then here to Him our souls we raise
In songs of gratitude and praise.

3 Blest are the moments, doubly blest,
That, drawn from this one hour of rest,
Are with a ready heart bestowed
Upon the service of our God!

4 Look up to heaven! The unwearied sun
Already half his race hath run;
He cannot halt nor go astray,
But our immortal spirits may.

5 Lord! since his rising in the East
If we have faltered or transgressed,
Guide, from Thy love's abundant source,
What yet remains of this day's course.

6 Help with Thy grace, through life's short day, Our upward and our downward way:

cres. And glorify for us the West,

dim. When we shall sink to final rest. Amen.