| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Original Hymns.
IV. “Saviour, again to Thy dear name” | | By John Ellerton (1826–1893) |
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SAVIOUR, again to Thy dear name we raise | |
| With one accord our parting hymn of praise: | |
| We stand to bless Thee ere our worship cease; | |
| Then lowly kneeling wait Thy word of peace. | |
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| Grant us Thy peace, Lord, through the coming night, | 5 |
| Turn Thou for us its darkness into light; | |
| From harm and danger keep Thy children free, | |
| For dark and light are both alike to Thee. | |
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| Grant us Thy peace upon our homeward way; | |
| With Thee began, with Thee shall end the day; | 10 |
| Guard Thou the lips from sin, the hearts from shame, | |
| That in this house have called upon Thy Name. | |
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| Grant us Thy peace—the peace Thou didst bestow | |
| On Thine Apostles in Thine hour of woe; | |
| The peace Thou broughtest when at eventide | 15 |
| They saw Thy piercèd Hands, Thy wounded Side. | |
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| Grant us Thy peace throughout our earthly life, | |
| Peace to Thy Church from error and from strife; | |
| Peace to our land, the fruit of truth and love, | |
| Peace in each heart, Thy Spirit from above; | 20 |
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| Thy peace in life, the balm of every pain; | |
| Thy peace in death, the hope to rise again; | |
| In that dread hour speak Thou the soul’s release; | |
| And call it, Lord, to Thine eternal peace. | | | | |
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