8872 | The Cyber Hymnal#8873 | 8874 |
Text: | How Hast Thou, Lord, From Year To Year |
Author: | Thomas Gibbons, 1720-1785 |
Tune: | MAITLAND |
Composer: | George Nelson Allen |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 How hast Thou, Lord, from year to year,
Our land with plenty crowned!
And generous fruit and golden grain
Have spread their riches round.
2 But we Thy mercies have abused
To more abounding crimes;
What heights, what daring heights in sin
Disgrace and mark our times!
3 Equal, though awful, is the doom,
That fierce descending rain
Should into inundations swell,
And crush the rising grain!
4 How just, that in the autumn’s reign,
When we had hoped to reap,
Our fields of sorrow and despair
Should lie a hideous heap!
5 But Lord, have mercy on our land,
Those floods of vengeance stay:
Dispel these glooms, and let the sun
Shine in unclouded day!
6 To Thee alone we look for help;
None else of dew or rain
Can give the world the smallest drop
Or smallest drop restrain.
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First Line: | How hast Thou, Lord, from year to year |
Title: | How Hast Thou, Lord, From Year To Year |
Author: | Thomas Gibbons, 1720-1785 (alt.) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Notes: | "On a year of threatening rain." |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MAITLAND |
Composer: | George Nelson Allen (1844) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Source: | The Oberlin Social and Sabbath Hymn Book |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |