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:
“I and Pangur Ban, my cat,
‘Tis a like task we are at;
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night.”
—Unknown. Pangur Bÿn (l. 1–4)
“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”
—Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)
“Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words “ANGLO SAXON” on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)