Calm me, my God, and keep me calm

Calm me, my God, and keep me calm. Horatius Bonar (1808-1889). This is taken from Bonar’s Hymns of Faith and Hope, First Series (1857). It was entitled ‘The Inner Calm’. It had eight stanzas: Calm me, my God, and keep me calm,   While these hot breezes blow, Be like the night-dew’s cooling balm   Upon earth’s fevered brow. Calm me, my God, and keep me calm,   Soft resting on thy breast, Soothe me with holy hymn and psalm,   And bid my spirit rest. Calm me, my God, and keep me calm,   Let thine outstretched wing                  Be like the shade of Elim’s palm   Beside her desert spring. Yes, keep me calm, though loud and rude   The sounds my ear that greet, Calm in the closet’s solitude,...