FOR THE MIGHT OF YOUR ARM WE BLESS YOU

[1]
For the might of your arm we bless you,
our God, our fathers' God;
you have kept your pilgrim people
by the strength of your staff and rod;
you have called us to the journey
which faithless feet ne'er trod:

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for the might of your arm we bless you,
our God, our fathers' God.

[2]
For the love of Christ constraining,
that bound their hearts as one;
for the faith in truth and freedom
in which their work was done;
for the peace of God's evangel
where with their feet were shod:

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[3]
We are watchers of a beacon
whose light must never die;
we are guardians of an altar
that shows you ever nigh;
we are children of your free men
who sleep beneath the sod:

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[4]
May the shadow of your presence
around our camp be spread;
baptize us with the courage
with which you blessed our dead;
O keep us in the pathway
their saintly feet have trod:

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