Calm Me, My God

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.

Calm me, my God, and keep me calm,

Soft resting on Thy breast;

Sooth me with holy hymn and psalm,

And bid my spirit rest.

Calm me, my God, and keep me calm;

Let Thine outstretchèd wing

Be like the shade of Elim's palm

Beside her desert spring.

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;

Calm in the hour of buoyant health,

Calm in my hour of pain;

Calm in my poverty or wealth

Calm in my loss or gain;

Calm in the sufferance of wrong,

Like Him Who bore my shame,

Calm 'mid the threatening, taunting throng

Who hate Thy holy Name;

Calm as the ray of sun or star

Which storms assail in vain;

Moving unruffled through earth's war,

The eternal calm to gain.