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(6.6.6.6.8.8.)
Published in "The Hymnary", Novello, 1872.
| 1 | Safe home, safe home in port! |
2 | The prize, the prize secure! | ||||
| Rent cordage, shattered deck, | The athlete nearly fell; | ||||||
| Torn sails, provision short, | Bare all he could endure, | ||||||
| And only not a wreck; | And bare not always well: | ||||||
| But O the joy upon the shore To tell the voyage-perils oer! |
But he may smile at troubles gone Who sets the victor-garland on. |
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| 3 | No more the foe can harm: |
4 | The exile is at home: | ||||
| No more the leaguered camp, | O nights and days of tears! | ||||||
| And cry of night alarm, | O longings not to roam! | ||||||
| And need of ready lamp: | Of sins, and doubts, and fears! | ||||||
| And yet how nearly he had failed, How nearly had that foe prevailed! |
What matters now griefs darkest day The King has wiped those tears away. |
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| Amen. | |||||||
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