FOR Thy mercy and Thy grace, Faithful through another year, Hear our song of thankfulness, Father and Redeemer, hear.
All our sins on Thee we cast, Lord, for Thee we now arise, And forgetting all the past, Press towards our glorious prize.
Dark the future: let Thy light Guide us, Bright and Morning Star; Fierce our foes, and hard the fight: Arm us, Saviour, for the war.
In our weakness and distress, Rock of strength, be Thou our stay; In the pathless wilderness Be our true and living Way.
Keep us faithful, keep us pure, Keep us evermore Thine own: Help, O help us to endure; Fit us for the promised crown.
Henry Downton, 1818-85