Rock Of Ages

Rock of Ages
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“Rock of ages, cleft for ine”
Thoughtlessly & maiden sung
Fell the words inconsciously,
From her girlish gleeful longue:
Sang as little children sing
Sang va sing the birds in June,
Fell the words like light leaves down,
On the current of the tune,
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me lud myself in thee

Let me hide myself to thee,
Felt her soul no need to hide,
Sweet the gang sweet could be,
And she had no thought beside,
All the words unhesilingly
Feil from lips untouched by care,
Dreaming not that they might be
On some other ilpe & prayer
Ruck of aren, eleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee

Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Twas a woran wang them now
Piradingly and prayerfully
Every word her heart did know
Rose the song as storm-toned bird
Beats with weary wings the air,
Every note with sorrow stirred
Every syllable a prayer,
Rock of ages, cleft for me
Let me hide myself in thee

Rock of ages, left for me
Lips grown aged sang the hymn
Trustingly and tenderly
Volce grown weak, and oves grown diin
Let me hide myself in thee,
Trembling though the voice and low
Ean the zweel strain peacefully
lakes river in its How
Sang as only they can stok
Whe life’s therng pathe have prosed
Song as only they can wing
Who beholds a promised rest,
Rork of ages cleft for me
Let me hide myself in thee

Rock of weeks, left for me,
Bunk above a coffin lid
Underneath all restfully
All 11:0′ love and sorrows hid
Never more oh! storm-tossed soul
Never more from wind or tide
Never more fran billows roll
Will theu need thyself to hide
Craid the sightless sunken cycs-
Closed beneath the soft, gray hair;
Could the white and stiftened lips
Move again in pleading prayer,
Generative words would be
Let me hide myself in thee