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30. DANGERS OF SEAMEN.
They roam where danger dwells,
Where blasts impetuous sweep,
Where sleep the dead in watery cells,
Beneath the faithless deep,—
Where tempests threaten loud
To whelm the shipwrecked form:—
Show them a sky that hath no cloud,
A port above the storm.
Beyond the Sabbath bell,
Beyond the house of prayer,
Where deafening surges madly swell,
Their trackless course they dare:—
Give them the Book Divine,
That full and perfect chart;
That beacon 'mid the foaming brine,—
That pilot of the heart.
Where sin with aspect bold,
And fierce temptations urge,
Their wild and unwarn'd course they hold,
Rude as the reckless surge:—
Where blasts impetuous sweep,
Where sleep the dead in watery cells,
Beneath the faithless deep,—
Where tempests threaten loud
To whelm the shipwrecked form:—
Show them a sky that hath no cloud,
A port above the storm.
Beyond the Sabbath bell,
Beyond the house of prayer,
Where deafening surges madly swell,
Their trackless course they dare:—
Give them the Book Divine,
That full and perfect chart;
That beacon 'mid the foaming brine,—
That pilot of the heart.
Where sin with aspect bold,
And fierce temptations urge,
Their wild and unwarn'd course they hold,
Rude as the reckless surge:—
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Send forth the Gospel's power!—
That pole-star o'er the sea;
That when life's storms no longer lower,
Heaven may their haven be.
That pole-star o'er the sea;
That when life's storms no longer lower,
Heaven may their haven be.
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