Verse 1
See Lord a nation at thy feet!
Do with us now as seems thee meet,
Preserve alive, or slay:
Whate’er we may tomorrow feel,
Spar’d hitherto, thy grace we tell,
We sing thy love to day.

Verse 2
Thy love hath our protection been;
Thy love, and not the sea between,
Forbad our foes to pass:
Our watry walls had nought avail’d,
Our wooden walls themselves had fail’d,
Without our WALL OF BRASS.

Verse 3
The leopard fierce, who watches o’er
Our cities, on the adverse shore
Thy secret will detains:
Howe’er impatient to get free,
Till suffered by a beck from thee,
He cannot burst his chains.

Verse 4
But if, to scourge our nation’s sin,
The foe should as a flood come in,
Or a devouring flame,
We’ll praise our God, repriev’d so long,
Sing in the fires a gospel-song,
And shout Immanuel’s name.

Verse 5
That Spirit of faith and power divine
Shall then lift up the Christian sign
Against our enemy;
And, O! Might all the aliens prove
The virtue of thy dying love,
And yield themselves to thee!.

Verse 6
Saviour, desire of all mankind,
Come, and the antient dragon bind,
Command these wars to cease;
Let every soul thy kingdom prove,
In holy joy, and perfect love,
And everlasting peace.