Text: | At First I Prayed for Light |
Author: | Ednah Cheney |
Tune: | WOOLWICH |
Composer: | Charles Kettle |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. At first I prayed for light:
Could I but see the way,
How gladly, swiftly would I walk
To everlasting day!
2. And next I prayed for strength:
That I might tread the road
With firm, unfaltering feet, and win
The heavens’ serene abode.
3. And then I prayed for faith:
Could I but trust my God,
I’d live infolded in His peace,
Though foes were all abroad.
4. But now I pray for love:
Deep love to God and man;
A living love that will not fail,
However dark His plan.
5. And light and strength and faith
Are opening everywhere!
God waited patiently until
I prayed the larger prayer.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | At first I prayed for light |
Title: | At First I Prayed for Light |
Author: | Ednah Cheney (1850) |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WOOLWICH |
Composer: | Charles Kettle (1876) |
Meter: | SM |
Incipit: | 32343 22123 21121 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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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 |