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12656 | The Cyber Hymnal#12657 | 12658 |
Text: | Father! To Thy Kind Love We Owe |
Author: | William C. Bryant |
Tune: | CANONBURY |
Composer: | Robert Alexander Schumann |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Father! to Thy kind love we owe
All that is fair and good below;
Bestower of the health that lies
On tearless cheeks and cheerful eyes!
2 Giver of sunshine and of rain!
Ripener of fruits on hill and plain!
Fountain of light, that rayed afar,
Fills the vast urns of sun and star!
3 Who send’st Thy storms and frosts to bind
The plagues that rise to waste mankind;
Then breathest, o’er the naked scene,
Spring gales, and life, and tender green.
4 Yet deem we not that thus alone,
Thy mercy and Thy love are shown;
For we have learned, with higher praise,
And holier names, to speak Thy ways.
5 In woe’s dark hour, our kindest stay!
Sole trust when life shall pass away!
Teacher of hopes that light the gloom
Of death, and consecrate the tomb!
6 Patient, with headstrong guilt to bear;
Slow to avenge, and kind to spare;
Listening to prayer, and reconciled
Full quickly to Thy erring child!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Father! to Thy kind love we owe |
Title: | Father! To Thy Kind Love We Owe |
Author: | William C. Bryant |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | A Collection of Psalms and Hymns by Henry Devereux Sewall (New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1820) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: CANNONS by George F.Handel, CHURCH TRIUMPHANT by James W. Elliott, CONFIDENCE by William Moore |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CANONBURY |
Composer: | Robert Alexander Schumann (1839) |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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