While in the slippery paths of youth,

I run secure and free!

O let thy blesséd word of truth,

My guide and counsel be.

2 If near the tempter’s wily snare

In heedlessness I tread;

O be thy kind protecting care,

To save me overspread.

3 Thus o’er my life let mercy move,

And guide my feet the way

That leads me to thy throne above—

To everlasting day.