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A Hymn, For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney.

By William Cowper

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Hear, Lord, the song of praise and prayer     In heaven thy dwelling-place,     From infants made the public care,     And taught to seek thy face.     Thanks for thy word and for thy day,     And grant us, we implore,     Never to waste in sinful play     Thy holy Sabbaths more.     Thanks that we hearbut O! impart     To each desires sincere,     That we may listen with our heart,     And learn as well as hear.     For if vain thoughts the mind engage     Of older far than we,     What hope, that, at our heedless age,     Our minds should eer be free?     Much hope, if thou our spirits take     Under thy gracious sway,     Who canst the wisest wiser make,     And babes as wise as they.     Wisdom and bliss thy word bestows,     A sun that neer declines,     And be thy mercies showerd on those     Who placed us where it shines.

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William Cowper

About William Cowper

William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnodist whose work bridges the gap between the Augustan age and Romanticism. His poems "The Task" and "John Gilpin" were enormously popular, and his hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" remains widely sung.

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