O help us
Lord
each hour of need
Thy heavenly succor give;
Help us in thought
and word
and deed
Each hour on earth we live.
O help us
when our spirits bleed
With contrite anguish sore
And when our hearts are cold and dead
O help us
Lord
the more.
O help us
through the prayer of faith
More firmly to believe;
For still the more the servant hath
The more shall he receive.
If strangers to Thy fold we call
Imploring at Thy feet
The crumbs that from Thy table fall
’Tis all we dare entreat.
But be it
Lord of mercy
all
So Thou wilt grant but this:
The crumbs that from Thy table fall
Are light
and life
and bliss.
O help us
Jesus! from on high
We know no help but Thee;
Oh! help us to so to live and die
As Thine in Heav’n to be.