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| Text: | O Strength and Stay upholding all creation |
| Author: | Ambrose (?), d. 397 |
| Translator: | John Ellerton |
| Translator: | Fenton J. A. Hort |
| Tune: | STRENGTH AND STAY |
| Composer: | John B. Dykes |
1 O Strength and Stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost Thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide;
2 Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of the eternal day.
3 Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
Through Jesus Christ Thy co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living,
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | O Strength and Stay upholding all creation |
| Author: | Ambrose (?), d. 397 |
| Translator: | John Ellerton (1871) |
| Translator: | Fenton J. A. Hort (1871) |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1917 |
| Topic: | Times and Seasons: Evening |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | STRENGTH AND STAY |
| Composer: | John B. Dykes (1875) |
| Meter: | 11 10, 11 10 |
| Key: | D Major |
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