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Words: Ambrose of Milan (Rerum Deus tenax vigor); translated from Latin to English by John Ellerton and Fenton John Anthony Hort in Church Hymns, by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1871.
Music: "Strength and Stay," John Bacchus Dykes, 1875
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O Strength and Stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost Thyself unmoved abide;
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide.
Grant to life's day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy deathbed blending
With dawning glories of the eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
Through Jesus Christ Thy co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Hymns supplied through the gracious generosity of the Cyber Hymnal Website