Meu Amparo

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Do Teu cuidado terno

Author: G. W. Lloyd; Translator: João Corrêa da Costa
Tune: [Come near me, O my Savior]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Do Teu cuidado terno
Careço, ó Salvador,
Porque, se Tu ao longe estás,
Eu fico sem vigor.
Ao pé de Ti preciso,
Meu Redentor, viver,
E Tua forte mão sentir
A minha mão suster.

2 És Tu meu forte amparo,
Meu Guia e Protetor.
A graça e paz eu tenho em Ti;
Em Ti reside o amor.
Quer seja na ventura
Ou nas tribulações,
Teu santo Nome bendirei,
Ó luz dos corações.

3 Sem Ti, Jesus benigno,
De que me vale andar
Num chão florido, ou sobre mim
O belo sol brilhar?
Sem Ti é sempre noite,
Senhor, é afrontar
Em frágil nau, ou num batel,
Encapelado mar.

4 Só Tu da morte as sombras
Poder tens de afastar
E as portas, sim, do céu abrir,
Abrir de par em par.
Então naquele dia,
No dia sem igual,
Com Teus remidos cantarei
O hino triunfal.

Source: Hinos e Cânticos: com música #333

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Author: G. W. Lloyd

Reverend Lloyd was born in England in 1821 and came to America about 1850, alternately laboring for the Congregational Church and later for the Presbyterian Church in America. He was a great writer, and many of his poems were published in small booklets later in the 19th century. He was a fiery preacher, and later during the American Civil War, he was a staunch Unionist. New Jersey had many Copperheads in Branchville & Sussex County, i.e. those who supported the Southern Cause. As Reverend Lloyd attacked the Confederacy, he came under fire, quite literally. He was shot at while preaching in the pulpit in Branchville, but the assailant missed. In 1865, he published "The Devil in Dixie", a very long "verse" on the "evils" of the Confederacy.… Go to person page >