The Cyber Hymnal ‎#12648

12648. O Father, Glorify Thy Name!

1 "O Father! glorify Thy name!"
So prayed, at woe’s approach, my Lord;
Disease corrodes this mortal frame:
O Father! be Thy name adored.

2 Though life’s unruffled days had flown,
Ere yet was past her vernal prime,
And sickness o’er my head has strewn
The snows of age before their time.

3 Why fear the path of grief to tread?
Why, Father! shrink from Thy decree,
If thus my longing soul be led
A safer, shorter way to Thee?

4 On wings of faith, o’er fogs of earth,
Thy servant, Father! teach to rise,
And view the blessing’s native worth,
Cleared from affliction’s dark disguise.

5 Yon clouds, a mass of sable shade
To mortals gazing from below,
By angels from above surveyed,
With universal sunshine glow.

Text Information

• First Line: "O Father! glorify Thy name!"
• Title: O Father, Glorify Thy Name!
• Author: Thomas Gisborne
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use by Jonathan Stubbs (Uttoexter, England: 1805)
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: CHURCH TRIUMPHANT by James W. Elliott, CRIMEA by Thoro Harris, DAS WALT' GOTT VATER by Daniel Vetter

Tune Information

• Name: CYPRUS
• Arranger: Lowell Mason (1844)
• Meter: LM
• Key: G Major or modal
• Copyright: Public Domain