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