When all Thy mercies, O my God
My rising soul surveys
Transported with the view, I’m lost
In wonder, love and praise
Unnumbered comforts to my soul
Thy tender care bestowed
Before my infant heart conceived
From Whom those comforts flowed
Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My daily thanks employ
Nor is the last a cheerful heart
That tastes those gifts with joy
Thro' all eternity to Thee
A joyful song I’ll raise
For, oh, eternity’s too short
To utter all Thy praise
Alternate verses:
Thy Providence my life sustained
And all my wants redressed
While in the silent womb I lay
And hung upon the breast
To all my weak complaints and cries
Thy mercy lent an ear
Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learned
To form themselves in prayer
When in the slippery paths of youth
With heedless steps I ran
Thine arm unseen conveyed me safe
And led me up to man
Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths
It gently cleared my way
And through the pleasing snares of vice
More to be feared than they
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O how shall words with equal warmth
The gratitude declare
That glows within my ravished heart
But thou canst read it there
Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss
Hath made my cup run o’er
And, in a kind and faithful Friend
Hath doubled all my store
When worn with sickness, oft hast Thou
With health renewed my face
And, when in sins and sorrows sunk
Revived my soul with grace
Through every period of my life
Thy goodness I’ll pursue
And after death, in distant worlds
The glorious theme renew
When nature fails, and day and night
Divide Thy works no more
My ever grateful heart, O Lord
Thy mercy shall adore
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