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The Choir and The Oratory

or Praise and Prayer. By Josiah Conder

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COLLECT.

[O God! who seest how, on every hand]

O God! who seest how, on every hand,
Dangers and snares are strewed,
So that we cannot always upright stand
In fearless rectitude:
Strengthen our spirits with thy heavenly might,
All foes and ills to face;
And guard us through Temptation's life-long fight,
Triumphant through Thy grace.