Choosing the Better Part

Verse 1

Beset with snares on every hand, In life’s uncertain path I stand: Saviour divine! diffuse Thy light, To guide my doubtful footsteps right.

Verse 2

Engage this roving treacherous heart Wisely to choose the better part; To scorn the trifles of a day, For joys that none can take away.

Verse 3

Then let the wildest storms arise; Let tempests mingle earth and skies: No fatal shipwreck shall I fear, But all my treasures with me bear.

Verse 4

If Thou, my Jesus, still be nigh, Cheerful I live, and joyful die: Secure, when mortal comforts flee, To find ten thousand worlds in Thee.