Words
Customary lyrics for the tune are:
- O Lord our God
- Be Thou our guide
- That by thy help
- No foot may slide.
An alternative lyric changes the third line:
- O Lord our God
- Be Thou our guide
- So by Thy power
- No foot shall slide.
A variation on this, to the same tune, is sung at the end of a Brownie meeting in the UK and Canada:
- Oh Lord our God
- Thy children call
- Grant us Thy peace
- And bless us all.
A lyric inscribed in the Big Ben clock room is:
- All through this hour
- Lord, be my guide
- And by Thy power
- No foot shall slide.
Read more about this topic: Westminster Quarters
Famous quotes containing the word words:
“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)