Father! there is no change to live with Thee, br Save that in Christ I grow from day to day, br In each new word I hear, each thing I see, br I but rejoicing hasten on the way; br The morning comes with blushes overspread, br And I new-wakened find a morn within; br And in its modest dawn around me shed, br Thou hear'st the prayer and the ascending hymn; br Hour follows hour, the lengthening shades descend, br Yet they could never reach as far as me, br Did not thy love thy kind protection lend, br That I a child might sleep awhile on Thee, br Till to the light restored by gentle sleep br With new-found zeal I might thy precepts keep.