1 Our children, Lord, in faith and prayer
we bring before Your face;
let them Your covenant mercies share
and save them by Your grace.

2 Such little ones in Your embrace
You took while here below;
to us and ours, O God of grace,
the same compassion show.

3 O Lord, Your infant feet were found
within Your Father's shrine:
Your years with changeless virtue crowned
were all alike divine:

4 Dependent on Your bounteous breath
we seek Your grace alone,
in childhood, manhood, age and death,
to keep us still Your own.