The Cyber Hymnal ‎#475

475. Beset with Snares on Every Hand

1. Beset with snares on every hand,
In life’s uncertain path I stand;
Savior divine, diffuse Thy light,
To guide my doubtful footsteps right.

2. Engage this roving, treacherous heart
To fix on Mary’s better part,
To scorn the trifles of a day,
For joys that none can take away.

3. Then let the wildest storms arise,
Let tempests mingle earth and skies;
No fatal shipwreck shall I fear,
But all my treasures with me bear.

4. If Thou, my Jesus, still be nigh,
Cheerful I live, and joyful die;
Secure, when mortal comforts flee,
To find ten thousand worlds in Thee.

Text Information

• First Line: Beset with snares on every hand
• Title: Beset with Snares on Every Hand
• Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes & J. Cotton, 1755)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: HEBRON
• Composer: Lowell Mason (1830)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 53565 67117 23176
• Key: B♭ Major
• Copyright: Public Domain