Now in the Days of Youth

Now in the days of youth

When life flows fresh and free

Thou Lord of all our hearts and lives

We give our­selves to Thee;

Our fer­vent gift re­ceive

And fit us to ful­fill

Through all our days

in all our ways

Our heav­en­ly Fa­ther’s will.

Teach us wher­e’er we live

To act as in Thy sight

And do what Thou wouldst have us do

With ra­di­ant de­light;

Not choos­ing what is great

Nor spurn­ing what is small

But tak­ing from Thy hands our tasks

To glo­ri­fy them all.

Teach us to love the true

The beau­ti­ful and pure

And let us not for one short hour

An ev­il thought en­dure.

And give us grace to stand

Decided

brave

and strong

The lov­ers of all ho­ly things

The foes of all things wrong.

Spirit of Christ

do Thou

Our first bright days in­spire

That we may live the life of love

And lof­ti­est de­sire;

And be by Thee pre­pared

For larg­er years to come;

And for the life in­ef­fa­ble

Within the Fa­ther’s home.