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For the wealth of pathless forests

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CLEANSING FOUNTAIN

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 726 hymnals Tune Sources: 19th Century American camp meeting tune Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 13565 11651 35565 Used With Text: A Thanksgiving

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For the wealth of pathless forests

Hymnal: Progressive Songster #d33 (1872)

For the wealth of pathless forests

Hymnal: The Psalms of Life #432 (1857)

Author: Lucy Larcom Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10004 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D First Line: For the wealth of pathless forests Lyrics: 1 For the wealth of pathless forests, Whereon no axe may fall; For the winds that haunt the branches, The young bird’s timid call; For the red leaves dropped like rubies Upon the dark green sod; For the waving of the forests, I thank Thee, O my God! 2 For the sound of waters gushing In bubbling beads of light; For the fleets of snow white lilies Firm anchored out of sight; For the reeds among the eddies, The crystal on the clod; For the flowing of the rivers, I thank Thee, O my God! 3 For the rosebud’s break of beauty Along the toiler’s way; For the violet’s eye that opens To bless the newborn day; For the bare twigs that in summer Bloom like the prophet’s rod; For the blossoming of flowers, I thank Thee, O my God! 4 For the lifting up of mountains, In brightness and in dread; For the peaks where snow and sunshine Alone have dared to tread; For the dark of silent gorges, Whence mighty cedars nod; For the majesty of mountains, I thank Thee, O my God! 5 For the splendor of the sunsets, Vast mirrored on the sea; For the gold fringed clouds that curtain Heaven’s inner mystery; For the molten bars of twilight, Where thought leans, glad, yet awed; For the glory of the sunsets, I thank Thee, O my God! 6 For the earth, and all its beauty, The sky, and all its light; For the dim and soothing shadows That rest the dazzled sight; For unfading fields and prairies, Where sense in vain has trod; For the world’s exhaustless beauty, I thank Thee, O my God! 7 For the hidden scroll o’erwritten With one dear Name adored; For the heav’nly in the human, The Spirit in the Word; For the tokens of Thy presence Within, above, abroad; For Thine own great gift of Being, I thank Thee, O my God! Languages: English Tune Title: CLEANSING FOUNTAIN

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Lucy Larcom

1824 - 1893 Author of "A Thanksgiving" in The Cyber Hymnal Larcom, Lucy, was born at Beverley Farm, Massachusetts, in 1826. Her Poems were published in 1864. Her hymn, "When for me the silent oar" [Death Anticipated), was published in 1868. She died in 1893. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =============== Larcom, Lucy, p. 1576, ii. The extended use of this writer's hymns justifies a more detailed account of her life and work than is given on p. 1576. She was born in 1824, and worked from 1837-45 in the mills of Lawrence, Mass., then engaged in elementary teaching 1846-49, became a student at Monticello Female Seminary, Alton, Ill., 1849-52, and then entered upon advanced teaching in higher-class schools, and literary work. She edited with J. G. Whittier, Child Life in Poetry, 1871; Child Life in Prose, 1873; Songs of Three Centuries, 1875, &c. Her own works are Poems, 1869; Childhood Songs, 1875; Wild Roses of Cape Ann, 1881; Poetical Works, 1885; At the Beautiful Gate; And Other Songs of Faith, 1892. Her autobiography was published as A New England Girlhood. She died in 1893. In addition to "When for me the silent oar," of her hymns the following are in common use:— i. From her Poems, 1869. 1. Hand in hand with angels. Angelic companion¬ship. 2. If the world seems cold to you. 3. When for me the silent oar. Death ii. From her Wild Roses of Cape Ann, 1881. 4. In Christ I feel the heart of God. 5. O Spirit, "Whose name is the Saviour.” in. From her Poetical Works, 1885. 6. Breaks the joyful Easter dawn, master. 7. Heavenly Helper, Friend Divine. Christ the Friend. iv. From her At the Beautiful Gate, &c, 1892. 8. Draw Thou, my soul, O Christ. Looking to Jesus. 9. O God, Thy world is sweet with prayer. Prayer. 10. Open your hearts as a flower to the light. 11. King, happy bells of Easter time. Easter. The above notes are from the British Museum copies of Miss Larcom's works. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)