LORD, We Have Heard Our Fathers Tell

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LORD, we have heard our fathers tell

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
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1 LORD, we have heard our fathers tell,
The wonders of Thy hand;
How all their foes before Thee fell,
And they possessed the land.

2 They conquered not by spear or sword,
Or aught that was their own;
And we, like them, Almighty LORD,
Would rest on Thee alone.

3 But ah, You seemed to cast us off,
And put our hopes to shame;
And yet amidst defeat and scoff,
We trust Thee still the same.

4 Arise, great God, no longer sleep;
Thy grace no more withhold.
Redeem, restore Thy scattered sheep,
And save us as of old.

Source: Psalms of Grace #44a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line:	LORD, we have heard our fathers tell
Title:	LORD, We Have Heard Our Fathers Tell
Author:	Henry Francis Lyte
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain