Awake My Soul and With the Sun NLPHB 27

This very old morning hymn is very new to me, but a metrical hymn makes like easy for me after a few chants.

The text is C17 by Thomas Ken and it is here set to MELCOMBE (C18, Samuel Webbe).

Wikipedia has fourteen verses, but here five is enough and it finishes with the doxology, which I used to sing every week in my Presbyterian church set to the OLD 100th.

1 Awake, my soul, and with the sun
Thy dai­ly stage of du­ty run;
Shake off dull sloth, and joy­ful rise,
To pay thy morn­ing sac­ri­fice.

2 Glory to thee, who safe has kept
And has re­freshed me while I slept;
Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake
I may of end­less light par­take.

3 Lord, I my vows to thee re­new;
Disperse my sins as morn­ing dew;
Guard my first springs of thought and will,
And with thy­self my spir­it fill.

4 Direct, con­trol, sug­gest, this day
All I de­sign, or do, or say;
That all my pow­ers, with all their might,
In thy sole glo­ry may unite.

5 Praise God, from whom all bless­ings flow,
Praise him, all crea­tures here be­low,
Praise him above, ye heaven­ly host;
Praise Fa­ther, Son, and Ho­ly Ghost.

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