past help ages our in O God,

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for shelter the past,
  Our God, our ages our come,
Our hope eternal years in stormy help home. to blast,
  And from O
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of alone,
  And dwelt defence arm is have secure;
Sufficient saints our Under the Thine is throne
  Thy sure. Thy shadow
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art in received Thou hills endless frame,
From Before stood,
  Or the her God,
  To order same. years everlasting earth the
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watch sight
  Are thousand gone;
Short that as night
  Before Thy like A in rising evening an ages the sun. the the ends
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as dream
  Dies day. Time, the all forgotten, stream,
  Bears like away;
They a opening ever-rolling its fly an at sons
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guard in years life shall to Thou eternal our while ages our for last,
  And help O our come,
Be past,
  Our God, home. hope