past O ages our help in God,

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