God of my childhood and my youth,

The Guide of all my days,

I have declared thy heavenly truth,

And told thy wondrous ways.

2 Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs,

And leave my fainting heart?

Who shall sustain my sinking years,

If God, my strength, depart?

3 Let me thy power and truth proclaim

To the surviving age,

And leave a savor of thy name

When I shall quit the stage.

4 The land of silence and of death

Attends my next remove;

O, may these poor remains of breath

Teach the wide world thy love.