Poems (Coolidge)/When
WHEN
When faults distress, Temptations press, Oh! grant me in believing, Although I know my nothingness, To feel that thou the efforts bless I make in their retrieving.
When dark the day, When rough the way, Grant solace for that hour; To lean on thee, my staff, my stay, To, patient, all thy will obey, Vouchsafe the grace and power.
When I must sleep The slumber deep That knows, on earth, no waking, My hand in thine I'd trustful keep; Then, show to thy once wayward sheep, The light eternal breaking.