help past ages in O our God,

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