When in thy sacred presence, Lord! I…

When in thy sacred presence, Lord! I bow, Let true devotion in my bosom glow; There, with the sense of thy great goodness fraught, May I with care correct each wand'ring thought; Drink at my ears the preacher's Heav'nly lore, And still the more I hear, improve the more; Make this short life an earnest of the next, And all my acts a comment on thy text.