716. 4. On the lone mountain side, Before the morning's light, The Man of Sorrows wept and cried, 5. O hear us, then, for we J. Are very weak and frail ; We make the Saviour's name our plea, A Morning Song. C. H. Spurgeon. C.M. LORD of life, Thy quickening voice In gladsome words I would rejoice That I to Thee belong. 2. I see Thy light, I feel Thy wind! 3. Therefore I choose my highest part, 4. Lord, let me live and act this day, Lord, make my spirit good and gay— 5. Within my heart, speak, Lord, speak on, Till the night comes, and, labour done, G. Macdonald. 717. I. 718. I. The Day's Beginning. 1. BEGIN the day with God! His is the radiance of thy dawn, 2. Sing a new song at morn; Join the glad woods and hills; Join the fresh winds and seas and plains; 3. Awake, cold lips, and sing; Arise, dull heart, and pray ; Lift up, O man, thy heart and eyes; Brush slothfulness away! 4. Cast every weight aside; Do battle with each sin; Fight with the faithless world without, 5. Look up beyond these clouds, Daily Bread. God, Thou giver of all good! Suns glow, rains fall, by power divine; S.M. H. Bonar. L.M 3. What large provision Thou hast made ! 4. Since every day by Thee we live, 719. I. May grateful hearts Thy gifts receive; Noonday. Samuel Longfellow. HIGH in the heaven th' industrious sun Already half his race hath run; He cannot halt nor go astray, But our immortal spirits may. 2. Lord! since his rising in the east, L.M. 3. Help with Thy grace, through life's short day, Our upward and our downward way ; And glorify for us the west, When we shall sink to final rest. William Wordsworth. 720. I. Morning, Noon, Evening. THE morning walks upon the earth, And man awakes to toil and mirth; All living things and lands are gay- 2. Sweet is the breathing of the world, L.M. 3. Now noon sits throned, her golden urn 4. Slow comes the evening o'er the hill, 5. Now droops the dark, but worlds of light, Infinite Stillness, silent sea Of Truth and Power, flow over me. 721. Who givest labour, and then rest,— 1. Morning Prayer. Stopford A. Brooke. C.M. FATHER, hear my morning prayer, Thy aid impart to me, That I may make my life to-day Acceptable to Thee. 2. May this desire my spirit rule; Something of good be born in me, 3. Some grace that seeks my heart to win, Find overthrow complete. 4. That so throughout the coming day A little farther from the world, A little nearer Thee. Frances A. Percy. 722. I. Another Day. GOD! I thank Thee for each sight O God, I thank Thee that I live! 3. Another day in which to cast Some silent deed of love abroad, 4. Another day to do, to dare ; To tax anew my growing strength; L.M. 723. I. LORD, our God, O Light of light, Who art Thyself the day, Our chants shall break the clouds of night; 2. Who madest all, and dost control, 3. Each sin to Thee of years gone by, |