1 When chilly shadows quickly fall,
And darkness seems to cover all,
Dear Savior hear my pleading call,
And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine.
Chorus:
O clasp my hand in Thine,
O clasp my hand in Thine;
Hear Thou my prayer and grant Thy care,
And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine.
2 When tempted from the narrow way,
When in forbidden paths I stray,
In sadness, turning back, I say:
Lord, clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. [Chorus]
3 O closer, closer, hold my hand,
And lead me to the summer land,
Where I may in Thy presence stand,
And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. [Chorus]
Source: Christian Hymns: for every purpose in worship #162
Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis.
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