God of Our Life! Thy Various Praise

God of our life! Thy va­ri­ous praise

Let mor­tal voic­es sound;

Thy hand re­volves our fleet­ing days

And brings the sea­sons round.

To Thee shall an­nu­al in­cense rise

Our Fa­ther and our friend;

While an­nu­al mer­cies from the skies

In ge­ni­al streams des­cend.

In ev­ery scene of life

Thy care

In ev­ery age

we see;

And con­stant as Thy fa­vors are

So let our prais­es be.

Still may Thy love

in ev­ery scene

To ev­ery age ap­pear;

And let the same com­pas­sion deign

To bless the op­en­ing year.

O keep this fool­ish heart of mine

From an­xious pass­ions free

Teach me each com­fort to re­sign

And trust my all to Thee.

If mer­cy smile

let mer­cy bring

My wan­der­ing soul to God;

And in af­flict­ion I shall sing

If Thou wilt bless the rod.