Delightful work! young souls to win
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Delightful work! young souls to win,And turn the rising raceFrom the deceitful paths of sin,To seek redeeming grace.
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Children our kind protection claim,And God will well approveWhen infants learn to lisp his name,And their Redeemer love.
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Be ours the bliss, in wisdom's wayTo guide untutored youth,And show the mind which went astrayThe Way, the Life, the Truth.
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Almighty God, thine influence shed,To aid this blest design;The honors of thy name be spread,And all the glory thine.