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Glad to warn and glad to cherish,
With a faithful tender tongue
Cheers the weak ones near to perish,
Gently leads the ewes with young.
VIII.
Justifiest our delight,
Thou our ignorance informest,
And our wisdom shapest right;
Thou in peace dost keep, defendest
In the hour of doubt and strife;
Thou beginnest and Thou endest
All that Christians count of life!
IX.
Take our spirits unto Thee;
Fain we would be happy, lowly,
Make us as we fain would be!
'Tis not our own will approves us,
If we praise or if we sue,
'Tis Thine own kind Spirit moves us,
For 'tis Thine to will and do.
