Grant unto us, O God, that in all time of our testing we may know thy presence and obey thy will; that, following the example of thy servant John Mason Neale, we may with integrity and courage accomplish what thou givest us to do, and endure what thou givest us to bear; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Excessive work killed this remarkably gifted son of the Church at the early age of forty-eight, in 1866, very shortly after the death of Keble. The following lines, dictated on his death-bed, form a fitting last message to the Church:
Ye, who are fighting the battle for England’s Church and her glory.
Time there will be, there will be, though we never shall see it in this world,
When, by the hands of men that come after us, God shall upraise her;
She whom we fight for now be no more despised and rejected,
But an eternal praise, and a joy for all generations.
from [url=http://anglicanhistory.org/bios/jmneale.html] Project Canterbury [/url]
Some wonderful perennial hymns and translations from this man.