ELHB Hymn 165

Thou who roll'st the year around

Ray Palmer (1858)

Hymn Text

165. Thou who roll'st the year around

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1 Thou who roll’st the year around,
Crowned with mercies large and free,
Rich Thy gifts to us abound,
Warm our praise shall rise to Thee.
2 Kindly to our worship bow,
While our grateful thanks we tell,
That, sustained by Thee, we now
Bid the parting year--farewell!
3 All its numbered days are sped,
All its busy scenes are o’er,
All its joys for ever fled,
All its sorrows felt no more.
4 Mingled with th’eternal past,
Its remembrance shall decay;
Yet to be revived at last
At the solemn judgment-Day.
5 All our follies, Lord, forgive!
Cleanse us from each guilty stain;
Let Thy grace within us live,
That we spend not years in vain.

Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #165