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:
“The words too, slow, slow, the subject dies before it comes to the verb, words are stopping too.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“‘Twixt such friends as we
Few words suffice.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)