“Dear Name, the Rock on which I build,
My Shield and Hiding-place;
My never failing Treasury, filled
With boundless stores of grace: 

“Jesus, my Shepherd, Husband, Friend,
My Prophet, Priest, and King,
My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End,
Accept the praise I bring.

“Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought;
But when I see thee as thou art,
I’ll praise thee as I ought.

“Till then I would thy love proclaim
With every fleeting breath;
And may the music of thy name
Refresh my soul in death.”

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“Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me: 
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

“’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved: 
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

“Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
Already I have come: 
’Twas grace that brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

“Yes, when this heart and flesh shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.”

A swelling Jordan rolls between—­
A timid pilgrim, I;
But grace shall order all the scene,
And Christ himself be nigh.

He shall roll back the foaming wave,
Command the channel dry;
No sting has death, no victory grave? 
With Jesus in my eye.

“Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of endless praise.

“Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it—­
Mount of God’s unchanging love.

“Here I raise my Ebenezer,
Hither by thy help I’m come,
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

“Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed with precious blood.

“Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be: 
Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.

“Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it from thy courts above.”

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Eternal God, I bless thy name,
The same thy power, thy grace the same;
The tokens of thy friendly care
Open and crown and close the year.

I mid ten thousand dangers stand,
Supported by thy gracious hand;
And see, when I survey thy ways,
Ten thousand monuments of grace.

Thus far thine arm has led me on;
Thus far I make thy mercy known;
And while I tread this desert land,
New mercies shall new songs demand.