Text: | Hear my pray'r, O heavenly Father |
Author: | Harriet Parr |
Tune: | WRAYSBURY |
Composer: | Edward J. Hopkins |
1 Hear my pray'r, O heavenly Father,
Ere we lay me down to sleep;
Bid Thy angels, pure and holy,
Round my bed their vigil keep.
2 Great by sins are, but Thy mercy
Far outweighs them every one;
Down before Thy cross I cast them,
Trusting in Thy help alone.
3 Keep me, through this night of peril,
Underneath its boundless shade;
Take me to Thy rest, I pray Thee,
When my pilgrimage is made!
4 None shall measure out Thy patience
By the span of human thought;
None shall bound the tender mercies
Which Thy Holy Son hath wrought.
5 Pardon all my past transgressions;
Give me strength for days to come;
Guide and guard me with Thy blessing,
Till Thine angels bid me home!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Hear my pray'r, O heavenly Father |
Author: | Harriet Parr (1856) |
Meter: | 8s, 7s. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1899 |
Topic: | Evening; God: Patience of; Mercy of God |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WRAYSBURY |
Composer: | Edward J. Hopkins |
Meter: | 8s, 7s. |