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479 | Church Book#480 | 481 |
Text: | God of my life, to Thee I call! |
Author: | William Cowper |
Tune: | ANGELUS |
1 God of my life, to Thee I call!
Afflicted at Thy feet I fall;
When the great water-floods prevail,
Leave not my trembling heart to fail!
2 Friend of the friendless and the faint!
Where should I lodge my deep complaint?
Where but with Thee, whose open door
Invites the helpless and the poor?
3 Did ever mourner plead with Thee,
And Thou refuse that mourner's plea?
Does not the word still fixed remain,
That none shall seek Thy face in vain?
4 That were a grief I could not bear,
Didst Thou not hear and answer prayer;
But a prayer-hearing, answering God
Supports me under every load.
5 Fair is the lot that's cast for me;
I have an Advocate with Thee;
They whom the world caresses most
Have no such privilege to boast.
6 Poor though I be, despised, forgot,
Yet God, my God, forgets me not;
And he is safe, and must succeed,
For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | God of my life, to Thee I call! |
Author: | William Cowper (1779) |
Meter: | L. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1890 |
Topic: | The Cross and Comfort; The Cross and Comfort: In Outward Suffering; Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity(1 more...) |
Notes: | Alternate tune: #145 or #371 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ANGELUS |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Notes: | Composer from index: J. Scheffler (Angelus), 1657 |