6686. Thou, Lord of Life

1. Thou, Lord of life, our saving health,
Who mak’st Thy suffering ones our care;
Our gifts are still our truest wealth,
To serve Thee our sincerest prayer.

2. As on the river’s rising tide
Flow strength and coolness from the sea,
So through the ways our hands provide,
May quickening life flow in from Thee;

3. To heal the wound, to still the pain,
And strength to failing pulses bring,
Till the lame feet shall leap again,
And the parched lips with gladness sing.

4. Bless Thou the gifts our hands have brought!
Bless Thou the work our hearts have planned,
Ours is the faith, the will, the thought;
The rest, O God, is in Thy hand.

Text Information
First Line: Thou, Lord of life, our saving health
Title: Thou, Lord of Life
Author: Samuel Longfellow (ca. 1886)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: HESPERUS
Composer: Henry Baker (1854)
Meter: LM
Incipit: 33351 22355 54234
Key: F Major
Source: First pub­lished in A Hym­nal for Use in the Eng­lish Church, by John Grey, 1866
Copyright: Public Domain



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