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5680 | The Cyber Hymnal#5681 | 5682 |
Text: | The Prodigal Son (Guild) |
Author: | Marion P. Guild |
Tune: | SHELTERED DALE |
Composer: | Christoph W. Glück, 1714-1787 |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Here feast I at my Father’s board
Who starved among the swine;
For me must every foot be fleet
And every lamp must shine;
For me the merry music sounds,
The dancers dip and twine.
2. My heart beats fast against my robe,
The best robe, soft and red;
With sobbing breath and tightening throat
And tears in rapture shed,
I feel His ring upon my hand,
His blessings on my head.
3. Ah, bitter was the way, and oft
My blood my path would trace;
And guilt and grief and stabbing shame
With all my steps kept pace;
And yet I famished not for bread
So sore as for His face.
4. The road seemed endless. On I fared,
Wresting each mile from death;
Then such an awe upon me fell
I scarce could draw my breath;
My spirit felt His coming as
Of one that succoreth.
5. Blind, fainting, to His mighty breast
He caught and held me fast;
I knew the fortress of His arms
About my weakness cast;
And, when He kissed my traitor cheek,
I guessed His heart at last.
6. The piteous words I oft had conned
I trembling strove to say;
But sudden glory round me poured
A brighter, richer day.
In wonderment I lifted up
My head that drooping lay.
7. The glory streamed from out His eyes,
As from all Beauty’s throne.
O depths of love unthinkable
That in that splendor shone!
O pain of love that travaileth
And bleedeth for its own.
8. O gleam of wisdom hoar with eld
Ere sang the stars of morn!
O shifting, blending, dazzling lights
That thrilled my hope forlorn
To undreamed miracles of joy
And surge of life reborn!
9. He brought me home, and here I sit,
Even in my boyhood’s place;
And on my very soul is stamped
Each largess of His grace;
But still transfiguring all I see
That radiance of His face!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Here feast I at my Father's board |
Title: | The Prodigal Son (Guild) |
Author: | Marion P. Guild (before 1918) |
Meter: | 86.86.86 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SHELTERED DALE |
Composer: | Christoph W. Glück, 1714-1787 |
Meter: | 86.86.86 |
Incipit: | 53332 34275 11171 |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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