in O help ages God, past our

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