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Text:Please to watch us, blessed Saviour
Tune:MT. VERNON
Composer:Dr. Lowell Mason

18. Please to watch us, blessed Saviour

1 Please to watch us, blessed Saviour,
As we leave our "Sabbath home;"
Guide and keep us from all danger,
Till again to thee we come.

2 Though we very often wander
In the paths of vice and sin,
Yet we pray that thou wouldst hear us,
Cleanse and make us pure within.

3 Make each spirit meek and lowly,
Make us leave the ways of strife,
Lead us in the path of duty,
Lead us to the "better life."

4 Thus we'd serve thee, blessed Saviour,
Till we've crossed life's stormy sea,
And with each loved friend and teacher,
All are gathered home to thee.

Text Information
First Line: Please to watch us, blessed Saviour
Publication Date: 1865
Notes: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: MT. VERNON
Composer: Dr. Lowell Mason
Meter: 8s & 7s
Key: C Major



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