past ages in O God, our help

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