The triumph of music :: :: University of Virginia Library

SPIRIT of truth! thou guest benign
Announc'd to man by lips divine!
For ever in my heart reside!
Be thou my guardian! thou my guide!
And make me ever kind, and just
In every act, in every trust!
Without presumption, doubt, or dread,
Grant me thy simple path to tread!
And with thy aid at last aspire
To gaze on thy almighty sire!