Written on Board the Medway.
GOD of the dry land and the sea!
From this frail bark, I look to thee:
Thy heavenly guidance I implore
To Australasia’s distant shore.
Thither I go at thy command,
Far from my loved, my native land,
To point to sinful men the road
That leads the penitent to God.
O let thy spirit guide me, then,
That while I preach to other men,
I may not on thy judgment-day
Be found myself a castaway!
Lord! shew thy power and grace to me.
As once to Israel in the sea;
That I may wonder and adore
Like Israel on the farther shore.
And when arrived on that far coast,
Tho’ troubled long and tempest-tossed,
O may thy fiery pillar shine
Along my path with ray divine!
From the Rock Christ, where’er I go,
May streams of living water flow;
And still may thine Almighty Hand
Send manna in the barren land!
So shall I reach the Jordan’s side,
And fearless stem its rapid tide;
So shall I make my firm abode
With Israel on the Mount of God!
(John Dunmore Lang)
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