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Text:Alas, What Hourly Dangers Rise!
Author:Anne Steele
Tune:BALLERMA
Composer:François Hippolyte Barthélémon, 1741-1808
Media:MIDI file

9482. Alas, What Hourly Dangers Rise!

1 Alas, what hourly dangers rise!
What snares beset my way!
To Heav’n O let me lift my eyes,
And hourly watch and pray.

2 How oft my mournful thoughts complain,
And melt in flowing tears!
My weak resistance, ah, how vain!
How strong my foes and fears!

3 My gracious God, in whom I live,
My feeble efforts aid,
Help me to watch, and pray, and strive,
Though trembling and afraid.

4 Increase my faith, increase my hope,
When foes and fears prevail;
And bear my fainting spirit up;
Or soon my strength will fail.

5 Whene’er temptations fright my heart,
Or lure my feet aside,
My God, Thy powerful aid impart,
My guardian and my guide.

6 O keep me in Thy heavenly way,
And bid the tempter flee,
And let me never, never stray
From happiness and Thee.

Text Information
First Line: Alas, what hourly dangers rise!
Title: Alas, What Hourly Dangers Rise!
Author: Anne Steele
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate Tune: WARWICK by Stanley
Tune Information
Name: BALLERMA
Composer: François Hippolyte Barthélémon, 1741-1808
Meter: CM
Key: A♭ Major
Source: Adaptation in A Selection of Original Sacred Music, 1833
Copyright: Public Domain



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