Hymns of the Ages: selections from Lyra Catholica, Germanica, Apostolica and Other Sources

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d101O come and mourn with me awhile
d102O Faith, thou workest miracles
d103O for the happy days gone by
d104O Friend of souls, how well is me
d105O heart of fire, misjudged by wilful man
d106O Holy Ghost thou fire divine
d107O how I fear thee living God
d108O how the thought [love] of God attracts
d109O it is hard to work for God
d110O Jesu, King most wonderful
d111O Jesu, thou the beauty art
d112O Lord, how happy should [would] we [I] be
d113O that it were as it was wont to be
d114O thou pure light of souls that love
d115O thou the Father's image blest
d116O thou true life of all that live
d117O thou, whose wise, paternal love
d118O turn those blessed points, all bathed
d119O watchman, will the night of sin
d120O weep for them who never knew
d121Onward, Christian, though the region
d122Our limbs with tranquil sleep refreshed
d123Perfect in love, Lord can it be
d124Preserve my Jesus, O preserve
d125Prune thou thy words the thoughts control
d126Pure light of light eternal day
d127Pure meek with soul serene
d128Return, O wanderer, return [Return, return, now wanderer]
d129Rise, glorious Conqueror [leader], rise
d130Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee
d131She once was a lady of honor and wealth
d132Shed kindly light amid the encircling gloom
d133Since all the changing [coming] [downward] varying [various] scenes of time
d134Sing we the peerless deeds
d135Soil not thy plumage, gentle dove
d136Soldiers of Christ, arise, and put [gird] your armor
d137Star of the wide and pathless sea
d138Still, still with thee, when purple morning breaketh
d139Sweet Sabbath bells, I love your voice
d140Tear not away the veil, dear friend
d141The church is one wide harvest field
d142The light of love is round his feet
d143The Lord's eternal gifts
d144The night is come, like to the day
d145The pall of night o'ershades the earth
d146The peace which God bestows
d147The silver cord in twain is snapped
d148The star that heralds in the morn
d149There is not on the earth a soul so base
d150They who seek the throne of grace
d151Thou grace divine, encircling all
d152Thou loving Maker of mankind
d153Thy night is dark, behold the shade was deeper
d154Thy word, O Lord, like gentle dews, falls soft
d155To Christ, the Prince of Peace, The Son of God most high
d156To heaven approached a Sufi saint
d157To the hall of the [that] feast came the [that] sinful
d158Two hands upon the breast
d159Upon our fainting souls distil
d160We need some Charmer, for our hearts are sore
d161We watched, as she lingered all the day
d162What is the church, and what am I
d163What time the Savior spread his feast
d164When heaven in mercy gives thy prayers return
d165When I am weak, I'm strong
d166When I look back upon my former race
d167When I sink down in gloom or fear
d168When thou dost talk with God, by prayer I mean
d169When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean
d170While thou, O my God, art my help and defender
d171Why deck the high cathedral roof
d172Why dost thou beat so quick, my heart
d173Why haltest thus, deluded heart
d174Why is thy face so lit with smiles
d175Why should we grudge the hour
d176Wish not, dear friends, my pain away
d177Within this leaf, to every eye
d178Ye mist and darkness, cloud and storm
d179Yes, I do feel, my God, that I am thine

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