O our in past ages help God,

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