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rise, o my soul - george dyson lyrics

rise, o my soul! with thy desires to heaven
and use thy time, where time’s eternity is given
and let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts abuse;
but down in midnight darkness let them lie;
so live thy better, let thy worse thoughts die

to musicke bent is my retyred minde
and faine would i some song of pleasure sing ;
but in vaine ioys no comfort now i finde
from heau’nly thoughts all true delight doth spring
thy power, o god, thy mercies, to record
will sweeten eu’ry note and eu’ry word

all earthly pompe or beauty to expresse
is but to carue in snow, on waues to write
celestiall things, though men conceiue them lesse
yet fullest are they in themselues of light :
such beames they yeeld as know no meanes to dye
such heate they cast as lifts the spirit high

o make us apt to seek, and quick to find
thou god, most kind:
give us love, hope and faith in thee to trust
thou god, most just:
remit all our offences, we intreat
most good, most great:
grant that our willing though unworthy quest
may, through thy grace, admit us ‘mongst the blest
god be in my head, and in my understanding;
god be in mine eyes, and in my looking;
god be in my mouth, and in my speaking;
god be in mine heart, and in my thinking;
god be at [my end, and in]1 my departing

- george dyson lyrics

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