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12585 | The Cyber Hymnal#12586 | 12587 |
Text: | Sovereign Of Life, I Own Thy Hand |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Tune: | CLAUDIUS |
Composer: | Arthur Henry Mann |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Sovereign of life, I own Thy hand
In every chastening stroke;
And, while I smart beneath Thy rod
Thy presence I invoke.
2 To Thee in my distress I cried,
And Thou hast bowed Thine ear,
Thy powerful Word my life prolonged
And brought salvation near.
3 Unfold, ye gates of righteousness,
That, with the pious throng,
I may record my solemn vows,
And tune my grateful song.
4 Praise to the Lord, whose gentle hand
Renews our laboring breath:
Praise to the Lord, who makes His saints
Triumphant e’en in death.
5 My God, in Thine appointed hour
Those heav’nly gates display,
Where pain, and sin, and fear, and death
For ever flee away.
6 There, while the nations of the blessed
With raptures bow around,
My anthems to delivering grace
In sweeter strains shall sound.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Sovereign of life, I own Thy hand |
Title: | Sovereign Of Life, I Own Thy Hand |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: DALEHURST by Arthur Cottman, DEWITT by Uzziah C. Burnap, DOWNS by Lowell Mason |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CLAUDIUS |
Composer: | Arthur Henry Mann (1905) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | e minor or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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