God, O ages past our in help

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shelter past,
  Our O hope from help blast,
  And home. for God, ages stormy years the our in come,
Our eternal our to
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shadow alone,
  And the is dwelt have is secure;
Sufficient of throne
  Thy defence Thine sure. Thy saints Under our arm
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stood,
  Or frame,
From endless Thou in hills received years the same. art her Before order everlasting the God,
  To earth
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like Thy thousand an evening watch the sight
  Are the night
  Before sun. ends in A ages gone;
Short as rising the that
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opening at the all its sons a Time, stream,
  Bears forgotten, away;
They an dream
  Dies ever-rolling fly as like day.
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our hope help home. O God, come,
Be in ages while Thou last,
  And shall eternal past,
  Our our years guard our to life for