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[The "Good Shepherd" sought for one lost sheep]

[The "Good Shepherd" sought for one lost sheep]

Composer: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
Published in 4 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel

Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [The "Good Shepherd" sought for one lost sheep]
Composer: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
Incipit: 13335 56753 55356
Key: D♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Because He Loved His Own

The "Good Shepherd" sought for one lost sheep,
A way on the mountain height;
With bleeding hands and wounded feet,
He traveled day and night;
At last He gave His precious life--
He for the wand'rer died!

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