Verse 1
To God the Creator of all
My earliest tribute I pay,
On him with humility call,
And promise his laws to obey:
I promise alas, but in vain,
Unless he his Spirit bestow,
From folly and sin to restrain,
And keep me wherever I go.

Verse 2
O Father of mercies, attend,
(Though now I in ignorance cry,)
And teach me on him to depend,
My Advocate there in the sky:
Whatever I ask in the name
Of Jesus, I hear, shall be done,
As due to that innocent Lamb,
As claim’d by thine heavenly Son.