643. Father, Who on Us Do Shower

1 Father, who on us do shower
Gifts of plenty form Your dower,
To Your people give the power
All Your gifts to use aright.

2 Give pure happiness in leisure
Temperance in every pleasure,
Wholesome use of earthly treasure
Bodies clean and spirits bright.

3 Lift from this and every nation
All that brings us degradation;
Quell the forces of temptation;
Put Your enemies to flight.

4 Father, You who sought and found us,
Son of God, whose love has bound us,
Holy Spirit, in us, round us,
Hear us, Godhead infinite.

Text Information
First Line: Father, who on us do shower
Title: Father, Who on Us Do Shower
Author: Percy Deatmer (1867-1936) (1906; alt.)
Meter: 8.8.8.7.
Publication Date: 1985
Topic: Christan Life: Health and Wholeness
Copyright: Words from the English Hymnal by permission of Oxford University Press.
Notes: Now Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: CHARING
Composer: Studley L. Russell (1901-1978) (1931)
Meter: 8.8.8.7.
Incipit: 12323 56516 53643
Key: D Major
Source: Music from Enlarged Songs of Praise by permission of Oxford University Press.



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