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I. DAILY PRAYER.

Morning.

NEW every morning is the love

Our wakening and uprising prove; Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life, and power, and thought.

L. M.

2 New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven,
New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

3 If on our daily course our mind

Be set to hallow all we find,

New treasures still, of countless price,
God will provide for sacrifice.

4 Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be,
As more of heaven in each we see;
Some softening gleam of love and prayer
Shall dawn on every cross and care.

5 The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we need to ask;
Room to deny ourselves, a road
To bring us daily nearer God.

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6 Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love,
Fit us for perfect rest above;
And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.

PART I.

WAKE, my soul, and with the sun
Thy daily stage of duty run ;
Shake off dull sloth, and early rise
To pay thy morning sacrifice.

2 Redeem thy misspent time that's past,
And live this day as if thy last;
Improve thy talent with due care;
For the great Day thyself prepare.

3 Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart,
And with the angels bear thy part,
Who all night long, unwearied, sing
High praise to the eternal King.

L. M.

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PART II.

4 All praise to Thee, Who safe hast kept, And hast refreshed me while I slept;

Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless light partake.

5 Lord, I my vows to Thee renew;

Scatter my sins as morning dew;

Guard my first springs of thought and will,
And with Thyself my spirit fill.