Safe Upon the Billowy Deep

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Safe upon the billowy deep

Author: Henry Coppee (1887)
Published in 13 hymnals

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1 Safe upon the billowy deep,
Loving Lord, Thy servants keep;
Helpless, trusting pilgrims they,
Guard them on their watery way.

2 In the morning fill their sails,
'Mid the dark send favoring gales;
If their sky be overcast,
Calm the waves, and still the blast.

3 Let Thy sunshine guide by day;
Send at eve the starry ray;
Through the watches of the night,
Be Thou, Lord, their shining light.

4 Thus, as hour by hour rolls by
Watch them with Thy sleepless eye:
Guide with Thine almighty hand
Safe unto the haven-land.

5 And at last, life's voyage o'er,
Take us to the heavenly shore,
Safe in port, to dwell with Thee
Where there shall be "no more sea."

Amen.

The Hymnal: revised and enlarged as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892

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Author: Henry Coppee

Born: October 13, 1821, Savannah, Georgia. Died: March 22, 1895, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Buried: Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Coppee attended Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, for two years, worked as a civil engineer, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1845. He served in the Mexican-American War as a lieutenant, and was made a brevet captain for gallantry in the Battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He went on to serve as a professor of English at West Point (1850-55), and professor of English literature and history at the Univer… Go to person page >

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