When on the wea­ry heart there gent­ly dawns
The full­ness of His love,
Then with our spi­rits tuned to joy and praise,
We sing, God rules above!

Refrain

How He loves us, the notes come ring­ing,
From all the faith­ful, His mer­cy sing­ing;
The whole earth to Him is bring­ing
Praises for His love and care.

Safe in the sha­dow of His migh­ty wings,
He hides us day by day;
In that sweet shel­ter we may sweet­ly gain
Courage to tread life’s way.

Refrain

And when we each shall en­ter death’s dark vale,
Our earth­ly race well run,
He’ll grant us faith and cour­age still to say,
Dear Lord, Thy will be done.

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