God of my life, through all my days

1.

God of my life, through all my days

My grateful pow’rs shall sound Thy praise

My song shall wake with opening light

And cheer the dark and silent night

2.

When anxious cares would break my rest

And griefs would tear my throbbing breast

Thy tuneful praises, raied on high

Shall check the murmur and the sigh

3.

When death o’er nature shall prevail

And all the pow’rs of language fail

Joy through my swimming eyes shall break

And mean the thanks I cannot speak

4.

But O when that last conflict’s o’er

And I am chained to earth no more

With what glad accents shall I rise

To join the music of the skies

5.

Soon shall I learn the exalted strains

Which echo through the heav’nly plains

And emulate, with my unknown

The glowing seraphs round the throne

6.

The cheerful tribute will I give

Long as a deathless soul shall live

A work so sweet, a theme so high

Demands and crowns eternity