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Text:Away from Care
Author:Phoebe H. Brown
Tune:BROWN
Composer:W. B. Bradbury

810. Away from Care

1. I love to steal awhile away
From ev'ry cumb'ring care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.

2. I love in solitude to shed
The penitential tear;
And all His promises to plead,
Where none but God can hear.

3. I love to think on mercies past,
And future good implore;
And all my cares and sorrows cast
On Him whom I adore.

4. I love by faith to take a view
Of brighter scenes to come;
The prospect doth my strength renew
While here away from home.

Text Information
First Line: I love to steal awhile away
Title: Away from Care
Author: Phoebe H. Brown
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Christ: Prayer; Living His Life: Prayer
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: BROWN
Composer: W. B. Bradbury
Meter: C. M.
Key: C Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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