Text: | O Father, in Your father-heart |
Author: | Ella Sophia Armitage, 1841-1931 |
Tune: | SUSSEX CAROL |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
1 O Father, in Your father-heart
we know our children have their part;
we sign them in Your threefold Name,
and by the sprinkled water claim
Your covenant in Christ revealed,
to us and to our children sealed.
2 Name of the Father, pledge that we
in You our inmost being see;
Name of the Son, whereby we know
the Father's love to all below;
Name of the Spirit, blessed sign
that now we share the life divine.
3 Fulfil Your covenant of love;
baptise our children from above;
Your best, Your highest gift impart,
the blessing of a childlike heart,
and mould them through life's strain and stress
to the full growth of perfectness.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O Father, in Your father-heart |
Author: | Ella Sophia Armitage, 1841-1931 (alt.) |
Meter: | 88 88 88 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
Topic: | Jesus Christ: Baptism |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SUSSEX CAROL |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
Meter: | 88 88 88 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | English Traditional Melody |
Copyright: | Harm. © 1919 Stainer & Bell Ltd |