O help in our ages past God,

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