Calm Me My God and Keep Me Calm

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Calm Me My God and Keep Me Calm

LAMBETH-A. Schulthes (arr. Henry John Gauntlett)
NAOMI-Hans George Naegeli (arr. Lowell Mason)

Calm Me, My God, and Keep Me Calm
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Calm me, my God, and keep me calm:
Let Thy outstretched wing
Be like the shade of Elim's palm,
Beside her desert spring.

Yes, keep me calm, though loud and rude
The sounds my ear that greet;
Calm in the closet's solitude,
Calm in the busy street;

Calm in the hour of buoyant health,
And in the hour of pain;
Calm in my poverty or wealth,
And in my loss or gain;

Calm in the sufferance of wrong,
Like Him who bore my shame;
Calm 'mid the threatening, taunting throng,
Who hate Thy holy name.

Calm me, my God, and keep me calm,
Soft resting on Thy breast;
Soothe me with holy hymn and psalm,
And bid my spirit rest.