120 V.
A MORNING PRAYER.
'Ορθρος2424'Ορθροις violates metre; I would retain the reading ορθρος, and put a colon. Thus, as it seems to me, grammar, sense, and metre, may be all satisfied. διδωμι τϖ Θεϖ μου δεξιας,
(Iambic trimeter.)
| 'Tis dawn: to God I lift my hand, To regulate my way; My passions rule, and unmoved stand, And give to Thee the day: | | Not one dark word or deed of sin, Nor one base thought allow; But watch all avenues within, And wholly keep my vow. | | Shamed were my age, should I decline; Shamed were Thy table too, At which I stand:--the will is mine: Give grace, my Christ, to do. | |