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Text:How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?
Author:Anonymous
Tune:SAGINA
Composer:Thomas Campbell
Media:MIDI file

2690. How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?

1. How shall the young direct their way?
What light shall be their perfect guide?
Thy Word, O Lord, will safely lead,
If in its wisdom they confide.
Sincerely I have sought Thee, Lord,
O let me not from Thee depart;
To know Thy will and keep from sin
Thy Word I cherish in my heart.

2. O blessèd Lord, teach me Thy law,
Thy righteous judgments I declare;
Thy testimonies make me glad,
For they are wealth beyond compare.
Upon Thy precepts and Thy ways
My heart will meditate with awe;
Thy Word shall be my chief delight,
And I will not forget Thy law.

Text Information
First Line: How shall the young direct their way?
Title: How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?
Author: Anonymous (1912)
Meter: LMD
Language: English
Source: The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912, number 322
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: SWEET HOUR, William B. Bradbury, 1861
Tune Information
Name: SAGINA
Composer: Thomas Campbell (1825)
Meter: LMD
Incipit: 11235 46721 34275
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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