Hymn: Calm me, my God, and keep me calm
- Title:
- First Line: Calm me, my God, and keep me calm
- Hymnal: The Hymnal: published by the Authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
- Denomination: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Northern Presbyterian
- Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work
- Publication Date: 1895
Author(s)
- Author Name: Horatius Bonar
- Born: 1808
- Died: 1889
- Gender: M
Full Text
1 Calm me, my God, and keep me calm, While these hot breezes blow; Be like the night-dew's cooling balm Upon earth's fevered brow. 2 Calm me, my God, and keep me calm, Soft resting on Thy breast; Soothe me with holy hymn and psalm, And bid my spirit rest. 3 Calm me, my God, and keep me calm, Let Thine outstretch'd wing Be like the shade of Elim's palm Beside her desert-spring. 4 Yes, keep me calm, though loud and rude The sounds my ear that greet, Calm in the closet's solitude, Calm in the bustling street; 5 Calm in the hour of buoyant health, Calm in the hour of pain; Calm in my poverty or wealth, Calm in my loss or gain; 6 Calm in the sufferance of wrong, Like Him who bore my shame, Calm 'mid the threatening, taunting throng, Who hate Thy holy Name; 7 Calm as the ray of sun or star Which storms assail in vain; Moving unruffled through earth's war, The eternal calm to gain. Amen.