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Text: | Eternal Father, Strong to Save |
Author: | William Whiting |
Tune: | MELITA |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes |
1 Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm has bound the restless wave,
Who bade the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep:
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea.
2 O Savior, whose almighty word
The wind and waves submissive heard,
Who walked upon the foaming deep,
And calm amid its rage did sleep:
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea.
3 O Holy Spirit, who did brood
Upon the chaos wild and rude,
And bade its angry tumult cease,
And gave, for fierce confusion, peace:
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea.
4 O Trinity of love and power,
All travelers guard in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad praise from air and land and sea.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Eternal Father, strong to save |
Title: | Eternal Father, Strong to Save |
Author: | William Whiting (1860; alt.) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Topic: | God: Protection; National Songs |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MELITA |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes (1861) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8 |
Key: | C Major |