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10721 | The Cyber Hymnal#10722 | 10723 |
Text: | To Praise Our Shepherd's Care |
Author: | William H. Havergal |
Tune: | OLMUTZ |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 To praise our Shepherd’s care,
His wisdom, love, and might,
Your loudest, loftiest songs prepare,
And bid the world unite.
2 Supremely good and great,
He tends His blood-bought fold;
He stoops, though throned in highest state,
The feeblest to uphold.
3 He hears their softest plaint;
He sees them when they roam;
And if His meanest lamb should faint,
His bosom bears it home.
4 Kind Shepherd of the sheep!
A weary flock are we;
And snares and foes are nigh; but keep
The lambs who look to Thee.
5 And if through death’s dark vale
Our feet should early tread,
Oh, may we reach Thy fold, and hail
The love which us hath led!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | To praise our Shepherd’s care |
Title: | To Praise Our Shepherd's Care |
Author: | William H. Havergal (1840) |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Written after witnessing the death of Elizabeth Edwards, aged 12, of St. Nicholas, Worcester, and printed as a leaflet. Pub. in W. C. Wilson’s Bk. of General Psalmody, 1840; the Worcester Ps. & Hys., 1849; Life Echoes &c., 1883. The author also pub. a Memoir of the child. Julian, p. 498 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLMUTZ |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason (1824) |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | A Major |
Source: | Gregorian chant |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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