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| IN the hour of my distress, | |
| When temptations me oppress, | |
| And when I my sins confess, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When I lie within my bed, | 5 |
| Sick in heart and sick in head, | |
| And with doubts discomforted, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When the house doth sigh and weep, | |
| And the world is drown’d in sleep, | 10 |
| Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When the passing bell doth toll, | |
| And the furies in a shoal | |
| Come to fright a parting soul, | 15 |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When the tapers now burn blue, | |
| And the comforters are few, | |
| And that number more than true, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | 20 |
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| When the priest his last hath pray’d, | |
| And I nod to what is said, | |
| ’Cause my speech is now decay’d, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When, God knows, I’m toss’d about | 25 |
| Either with despair or doubt; | |
| Yet before the glass be out, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When the tempter me pursu’th | |
| With the sins of all my youth, | 30 |
| And half-damns me with untruth, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When the flames and hellish cries | |
| Fright mine ears and fright mine eyes, | |
| And all terrors me surprise, | 35 |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | |
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| When the judgment is reveal’d, | |
| And that open’d which was seal’d, | |
| When to Thee I have appeal’d, | |
| Sweet Spirit, comfort me! | 40 |
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