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.
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Famous quotes containing the word words:
“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“The words of truth are simple.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:11.
Response to women who describe the empty tomb of Jesus.