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| Text: | Almighty Maker of My Frame |
| Author: | Anne Steele |
| Tune: | WINSCOTT |
| Composer: | Samuel Sebastian Wesley |
| Media: | MIDI file |
1. Almighty maker of my frame!
Teach me the measure of my days,
Teach me to know how frail I am,
And spend the remnant in Thy praise.
2. My days are shorter than a span,
A little point my life appears;
How frail at best is dying man!
How vain are all his hopes and fears!
3. Vain his ambition, noise and show;
Vain are the cares which rack his mind;
He heaps up treasures mixed with woe,
And dies and leaves them all behind.
4. O be a nobler portion mine!
My God, I bow before Thy throne;
Earth’s fleeting treasures I resign,
And fix my hope on Thee alone.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Almighty maker of my frame |
| Title: | Almighty Maker of My Frame |
| Author: | Anne Steele (1760) |
| Meter: | LM |
| Language: | English |
| Source: | Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760 |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Notes: | The original was the 13-stanza poem, "When I Resolved to Watch My Thoughts." This version is a cento that first appeared in "A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors," by John Rippon, 1787. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | WINSCOTT |
| Composer: | Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1872) |
| Meter: | LM |
| Incipit: | 33216 54334 32171 |
| Key: | F Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Media | |
|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat image: |  Adobe Acrobat image(Cyber Hymnal) |
| MIDI file: |  MIDI File(Cyber Hymnal) |
| Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
| XML score: | XML score |
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