Grant that our days, while life shall last,
                                        
                                        In purest holiness be passed;
                                        
                                        Our minds so rule and strengthen
                                        
                                        That they may rise o’er things of earth,
                                        
                                        The hopes and joys that here have birth;
                                        
                                        And if our course Thou lengthen,
                                        
                                        Keep Thou pure, Lord, from offenses
                                        
                                        Heart and senses; blessed Spirit,
                                        
                                        Bid us thus true life inherit.