Text: | Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground |
Author: | Ralph Wardlaw |
Tune: | SONG 13 |
Composer (melody and bass): | Orlando Gibbons |
1 Christ, of all my hopes the ground,
Christ, the spring of all my joy,
still in you may I be found,
still for theemy powers employ
2 Let thy love my heart inflame;
keep your fear before my sight;
be thy praise my highest aim;
Be thy smile my chief delight.
3 Fountain of o'erflowing grace,
freely from thy fullness give;
till I close my earthly race,
may I prove it Christ to live.
4 Firmly trusting in thy blood,
nothing shall my heart confound;
safely I shall pass the flood,
safely reach Immanuel's ground.
5 Thus, O thus, an entrance give
to the land of cloudless sky;
having known it Christ to live,
let me know it gain to die.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Christ, of all my hopes the ground |
Title: | Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground |
Author: | Ralph Wardlaw (1817) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Faith and Aspiration; Jesus Christ: Grace |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SONG 13 |
Composer (melody and bass): | Orlando Gibbons (1623; alt.) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 |
Key: | E♭ Major |