Poems for Children Sigourney/The Last Day in the Year

by Lydia Sigourney

The Last Day in the Year.

Oh Thou, who dwellest in the heavens,
    Whom angels love and fear,
Who giv'st us in thy tender love
To close another year,—

Did'st for our many daily wants
    Untiringly provide,
And grant us friends and parents dear
    Our thoughtless steps to guide,—

When sickness smote our feeble frames,
    Did'st take away our pain,
And even when others sought the grave,
    Restor'd our health again,—

And bade the lamp of knowledge shine
    With radiance full and free,
And sent thy holy Book to shew
    The path that leads to Thee,—

Oh! give us good and grateful hearts
    Thy mercy to adore,
And take our spirits, when we die,
    Where they can praise thee more.

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