Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
AnonymousLitany
LAMB of God, my Saviour! | |
Explain before me | |
Thy matchless love, and by Thy grace procure me | |
A mind like Thine. | |
Thy humiliation | 5 |
In leaving heaven, | |
In being poor, and to a stable driven, | |
Teach me to stoop. | |
Thy birth of a Virgin | |
Make me live chastely | 10 |
Unspotted from the world, and manifestly | |
Sealed for the Lord. | |
Thy flight into Egypt | |
In such great danger | |
Teach me to be a pilgrim here and stranger | 15 |
In every place. | |
Thine innocent childhood | |
And meek behaviour | |
Teach me to be a little child for ever | |
Before thy face. | 20 |
Thy wondrous obedience | |
And true subjection | |
Unto Thy parents, melt to like affection | |
My stubborn heart. | |
Thy carpenter’s labour, | 25 |
Thy work and travel, | |
Daily preserve my handy-work from evil, | |
And bless my toil. | |
Thy goodwill to all men | |
By Thee created | 30 |
Teach me to honour all and tender-hearted | |
Behave to all. | |
Thy forty days’ fasting, | |
Thy self-denial, | |
Thy being sorely tried, in every trial | 35 |
Deliver me. | |