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Hymn 248: O Thou, in whom we live and move
HYMN CCXLVIII.
O Thou, in whom we live and move And have our being! meet us here Let us Thy tender mercy prove, As Thou art wont, from year to year.
For year by year, when throngs on throngs, Rejoicing to Thy courts repair, To offer praise in choral songs, And pour their souls in prayer:--
To prayers and songs in , A willing ear Thou dost incline, And cause the glory of Thy face In Christ, on all and each to shine.
To each and all, this day, anew, The tokens of Thy love impart, And let Thy blessing fall like dew, --Fall on good ground in every heart.
In every heart Thy word be sown, Spring up, and thrive through heat and cold, Until it shake like Lebanon, With heavenly fruit an hundred fold:--
Fruit ripening in our earthly clime, Till all the plants thus train'd by Thee, Flourish as trees of life through time, Then trees of immortality.