The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand

by Leonard Bacon(Duke Street by John Warrington Hatton)

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O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand

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(DUEK STREET L. M.)

Leonard Bacon, 1833

John Hatton, -1793

1. O God, beneath thy guiding hand,
   Our exiled fathers crossed the sea;
   And when they trod the wintry strand,
   With prayer and psalm they worship'd thee.
   
2. Thou heard'st, well pleased,the song, the prayer:
   Thy blessing came; and still its power
   Shall onward,through all ages, bear
   The memory of that holy hour.
   
3. Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
   Came with those exiles o'er the waves;
   And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
   The God they trusted guards their graves.
   
4. And here thy name, O God of love,
   Their children's children shall adore,
   Till these eternal hills remove,
   And spring adorns the earth no more. Amen.