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Text: | Your Word, O Lord, Is Gentle Dew |
Author: | Carl B. Garve, 1763-1841 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 |
Tune: | AF HIMLENS |
1 Your Word, O Lord, is gentle dew
To suff'ring hearts that want it;
Oh, shed your heav'nly balm anew,
To all your garden grant it;
Refreshed by you, may every tree
Bud forth and blossom gaily
And fruit and seed bring daily.
2 Your Word is like a flaming sword,
A sharp and mighty arrow,
A wedge that cleaves the rock; that Word
Can pierce through heart and marrow.
Oh, send it forth o'er all the earth,
To purge unrighteous leaven
And cleanse all hearts for heaven.
3 Your Word, a wondrous star, supplies
True guidance when we need it;
It points to Christ and so makes wise
All simple hearts that heed it;
Let not its light e'er sink in night,
But keep it brightly burning,
And fill our deepest yearning.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Your Word, O Lord, is gentle dew |
Title: | Your Word, O Lord, Is Gentle Dew |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 (alt.) |
Author: | Carl B. Garve, 1763-1841 |
Meter: | 87 87 877 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1978 |
Topic: | The Word; Epiphany 5 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AF HIMLENS |
Meter: | 87 87 877 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Koralpsalmboken, Stockholm, 1697 |
Copyright: | Setting © 1958 Service Book and Hymnal |