Lord, We Have Broke Thy Holy Laws

Lord

we have broke Thy ho­ly laws

And slight­ed all Thy grace;

And just­ly Thy vin­dict­ive wrath

Might cast us from Thy face.

Yet while such pre­ce­dents ap­pear

Marked in Thy sac­red Book

We from these depths of guilt and fear

Will to Thy tem­ple look.

To Thee

in our Re­deem­er’s name

We raise our hum­ble cries;

May these our pray­ers

per­fumed by Him

Like grate­ful in­cense rise.

O nev­er may our hope­less eyes

An ab­sent God de­plore

Where the dear tem­ples of Thy love

Shall stand re­vealed no more.

Far from those re­gions of des­pair

Appoint our souls a place;

Where not a frown thro’ end­less years

Shall veil Thy love­ly face.