Thou Are, Thou Were, O LORD

Thou are, Thou were, O LORD

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
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1 Thou are, Thou were, O LORD,
Long ere the mountains had their birth;
Long ere at Thy creative Word,
Arose this breathing earth.

2 Man, like a summer flower,
Lives through his little varied day,
The slender creature of an hour,
That blossoms to decay.

3 This truth, O make us see!
O bid us, LORD, be timely wise,
And seek a Savior, seek from Thee,
The life that never dies!

4 Forgive us every sin;
Fill our dark souls with joy and light;
And let that glorious day begin,
That never sinks in might.

Source: Psalms of Grace #90b

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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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