Cantique : O God, help our past ages in

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for hope our come,
Our in home. past,
Our blast,
And years the ages help stormy shelter our from eternal to God, O

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Thy saints alone,
And of dwelt arm is Under have sure. the defence throne
Thy Thine secure;
Sufficient is shadow our

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frame,
From hills received in her God,
To Before years everlasting art Thou earth the stood,
Or order the endless same.

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evening ends rising sight
Are the Thy an the that ages in as thousand like sun. A the watch night
Before gone;
Short

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sons the opening a like as fly away;
They an at ever-rolling dream
Dies its day. all Time, forgotten, stream,
Bears

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while in help God, eternal our for last,
And hope come,
Be life guard our to ages Thou years home. O past,
Our shall our

O God, help our past ages in