Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Re-clothe us in our rightful mind,
ln purer lives thy service find,
In deeper rev’rence praise.

In simple trust like theirs who heard
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word,
Rise and follow thee.

Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace.

Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
Still small voice of clam: