Morning: The Lord Is My Portion

Verse 1

O God, my God, my all thou art, Ere shines the dawn of rising day, Thy sovereign light within my heart Thine all enlive... Thine all enliv'ning pow'r display.

Verse 2

In blessing thee with grateful songs, My happy life shall glide away, The praise, that to thy Name belongs, Hourly with... Hourly with lifted hands I'll pay.

Verse 3

Abundant sweetness, while I sing Thy love, my ravish'd soul o'erflows. Secure in thee, my God and king, Of glory that... Of glory that no period knows.

Verse 4

Thy name, O Lord, upon my bed, Dwells on my lips and fires my thought. With trembling awe in midnight shade, I muse on all... I muse on all thine hands have wrought.

Verse 5

In all I do I feel thine aid. Therefore thy greatness will I sing, O God, who didst my heart be glad, Beneath the shadow... Beneath the shadow of thy wing.