Beneath thy kind protection keep
Whoe’er by land their way pursue,
Or tempt the dangers of the deep,
O let them there thy wonders view,
Held in the hollow of thy hand,
Brought thro’ a thousand deaths to land.
Beneath Thy kind protection keep
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "For All that Travel by Land or by Water." Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns of Intercession for All Mankind (Bristol: E. Farley, 1758). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 6 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 133.
Publishing: Public Domain