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| Text: | Breast the Wave, Christian |
| Author: | Joseph Stammers |
| Tune: | FORTITUDE (Filby) |
| Composer: | William Charles Filby |
| Media: | MIDI file |
1. Breast the wave, Christian, when it is strongest,
Watch for day, Christian, when the night’s longest;
Onward and upward still be thine endeavor;
The rest that remaineth will be forever.
2. Fight the fight, Christian, Jesus is o’er thee;
Run the race, Christian, Heav’n is before thee;
He who hath promised faltereth never;
The love of eternity flows on forever.
3. Lift thine eye, Christian, just as it closeth;
Raise thy heart, Christian, ere it reposeth;
Thee from the love of Christ nothing shall sever;
And when all thy work is done, praise Him forever.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Breast the wave, Christian, when it is strongest |
| Title: | Breast the Wave, Christian |
| Author: | Joseph Stammers (1830) |
| Meter: | 10.10.11.11 |
| Language: | English |
| Source: | Cottage Magazine, edited by John Buckworth, Vicar of Dewsbury, 1830, alt. |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | FORTITUDE (Filby) |
| Composer: | William Charles Filby (1874) |
| Meter: | 10.10.11.11 |
| Incipit: | 56531 67153 56553 |
| Key: | G Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Media | |
|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat image: |  Adobe Acrobat image(Cyber Hymnal) |
| MIDI file: |  MIDI File(Cyber Hymnal) |
| Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
| XML score: | XML score |
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