Tender mercies, on my way

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Tender mercies, on my way

Author: Anna Letitia Waring
Tune: FESTUS
Published in 9 hymnals

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Tender mercies, on my way
Falling softly like the dew,
Sent me freshly every day,
I will bless THE LORD for you.

Though I have not all I would,
Though to greater bliss I go,
Every present gift of good
To Eternal Love I owe.

Source of all that comforts me,
Well of joy for which I long,
Let the song I sing to Thee
Be an everlasting song.

Hymns and Meditations, 1873

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Author: Anna Letitia Waring

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First Line:	Tender mercies, on my way
Author:	Anna Letitia Waring
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 34:1
(hymns)

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FESTUS

FESTUS is an abridgement of a tune published in Johann A. Freylinghausen's (PHH 34) Geistreiches Gesangbuch (1704)* as a setting for "O du Hüter Israel." The shortened tune was first published in the Bristol Tune Book (1863). The tune title presumably honors Festus, the Roman procurator of Judea (A…

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ELLINGHAM (Godfrey)

VIA BONA

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