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Gracious Saviour let me make

Author: Josephine D. Heard (1890)
Tune: THE CALL (Vaughan Williams)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1. Gracious Savior, let me make
Neither error nor mistake—
Let me in your love abide,
Ever near your riven side.

2. Let me, counting all things dross,
Find my glory in the cross;
Let me daily with you talk,
In your footsteps daily walk.

3. I would gladly thus procees
Where you gently, kindly lead,
Where the lushest pastures grow,
Where the stillest waters flow.

4. For me is your table spread,
And you shall anoint my head,
And my cup of joy o'erflows
In the presence of my foes.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship (African American Edition) #22b

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Author: Josephine D. Heard

Josephine Della Heard (b 11 Oct. 1861, Salisbury, NC | d 21 Oct. 1924, Philadelphia, PA), daughter of Lafayette Henderson and Annie M. Grainer, showed an early aptitude for writing and music and was schooled in Charlotte, NC, Scotia Seminary, Concord, NC, and Bethany Institute, NY. She thereafter taught schools in Maysville, SC, Orangeburg, SC, and Covington, TN. In 1882, she married Rev. William Henry Heard. Benjamin Tucker Tanner was a friend of the family and an early advocate of her work. Many of her poems were published in Morning Glories (1890). —Chris Fenner, Hymns & Devotions for Daily Worship: African American Edition (2025). Go to person page >

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