Change

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