Father of mercies! God of love!

My Father and my God!

I’ll sing the honors of thy name,

And spread thy praise abroad.

2 In every period of my life

Thy thoughts of love appear;

Thy mercies gild each transient scene,

And crown each passing year.

3 In all thy mercies, may my soul

A Father’s bounty see;

Nor let the gifts thy grace bestows

Estrange my heart from thee.

4 Teach me, in times of deep distress,

To own thy hand, O God!

And in submissive silence learn

The lessons of thy rod.

5 Then may I close my eyes in death,

Redeemed from anxious fear:

For death itself, my God, is life,

If thou be with me there.