To Our Lord At Dawn Poem by David Mitchell

Lord Jesus Christ, I thank Thee for the morning,
That dawning hour before the world awakes,
Beginning with the songbirds' early warning
Telling us the first shaft of daylight breaks.

After a tiring night of broken sleeping,
After fatigue has weigh'd upon my eyes,
How grateful am I at the twilight's creeping
And that the day and I should now arise.

Lord Jesus Christ, when I reach my last hour,
When I am slain by all-devouring death,
I pray that Thou wilt show to me Thy Power,
My Saviour, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
When I am dead, save me, O Lord, I pray,
From endless Night, with everlasting day.

(Monday,2nd July,2007.)