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 question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“How often you, spurned, will run to my door, when your strong words shall have fallen into a sob, and a trembling horror will begin from your sad tears.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)
“The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. Their truth is instantly translated; its literal monument alone remains.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)