9481 | The Cyber Hymnal#9482 | 9483 |
Text: | Alas, What Hourly Dangers Rise! |
Author: | Anne Steele |
Tune: | BALLERMA |
Composer: | François Hippolyte Barthélémon, 1741-1808 |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Alas, what hourly dangers rise!
What snares beset my way!
To Heav’n O let me lift my eyes,
And hourly watch and pray.
2 How oft my mournful thoughts complain,
And melt in flowing tears!
My weak resistance, ah, how vain!
How strong my foes and fears!
3 My gracious God, in whom I live,
My feeble efforts aid,
Help me to watch, and pray, and strive,
Though trembling and afraid.
4 Increase my faith, increase my hope,
When foes and fears prevail;
And bear my fainting spirit up;
Or soon my strength will fail.
5 Whene’er temptations fright my heart,
Or lure my feet aside,
My God, Thy powerful aid impart,
My guardian and my guide.
6 O keep me in Thy heavenly way,
And bid the tempter flee,
And let me never, never stray
From happiness and Thee.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Alas, what hourly dangers rise! |
Title: | Alas, What Hourly Dangers Rise! |
Author: | Anne Steele |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate Tune: WARWICK by Stanley |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BALLERMA |
Composer: | François Hippolyte Barthélémon, 1741-1808 |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Source: | Adaptation in A Selection of Original Sacred Music, 1833 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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