Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne/Hymn 3

by Felicia Hemans

For works with similar titles, see Hymn.

HYMN.

Oh! God of mercy, let my lyre
Speak with energetic fire;
And teach my infant tongue to raise,
The grateful animated lays.
While musing at thy hallow'd shrine,
I listen to thy word divine;
I bless the page of genuine truth;
Oh! may its precepts guide my youth.
To Thee, thou Good Supreme! I bend,
Do thou the humble prayer attend.

F. D. B. aged 12.