New Every Morning

New every morning is the love

Our wakening and uprising prove,

Through sleep and darkness safely brought,

Restored to life and power and thought.

If on our daily course our mind

Be set to hallow all we find,

New treasures still of countless price

God will provide for sacrifice.

Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be
As more of Heaven in each we see;

Some softening glean of love and prayer

Shall dawn on every cross and care.

The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we ought to ask;
Room to deny ourselves, a road
To bring us daily nearer God.

Only, O Lord, in they great love,
Fit us for perfect rest above;
And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.


John Keble (1792-1866)