Go Not Far From Me, O My Strength

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1 Go not far from me, O my Strength,
Whom all my times obey;
Take from me anything thou wilt,
But go not thou away;
And let the storm that does thy work
Deal with me as it may.

2 No suffering, while it lasts, is joy,
How blest soe'er it be;
Yet may the chastened child be glad
His Father's face to see;
And O, it is not hard to bear
What must be borne in thee!

3 Safe in thy sanctifying grace,
Almighty to restore;
Borne onward, sin and death behind,
And love and life before,
O let my soul abound in hope,
And praise thee more and more!

4 Deep unto deep may call, but I
With peaceful heart will say,
"Thy loving-kindness hath a charge
No waves can take away;"
And let the storm that speeds me home,
Deal with me as it may.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #745

Author: Anna Letitia Waring

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Text Information

First Line: Go not far from me, O my Strength
Title: Go Not Far From Me, O My Strength
Author: Anna Letitia Waring
Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Go not far from me, O my [God] Strength. Anna L. Waring. [Resignation.] Appeared in her Hymns & Meditations, 4th edition, 1854, in 14 stanzas of 6 lines, and based upon Ps. xlii. 7, 8 (10th edition 1871, No. 20). Various centos, mostly beginning with stanza i., are in common use in Great Britain and America. The opening line in Martineau's Hymns of Praise and Prayer, 1873, is, "Go not far from me, O my God." In Kennedy, 1863, No. 294, the cento begins with stanza vii., "How blessed are the eyes that see."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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PIACENZA


MORNING SONG (Dare)

MORNING SONG is a folk tune that has some resemblance to the traditional English tune for "Old King Cole." The tune appeared anonymously in Part II of John Wyeth's (PHH 486) Repository of Sacred Music (1813). In 1816 it was credited to "Mr. Dean," which some scholars believe was a misprinted referen…

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WAREHAM (Knapp)

William Knapp (b. Wareham, Dorsetshire, England, 1698; d. Poole, Dorsetshire, 1768) composed WAREHAM, so named for his birthplace. A glover by trade, Knapp served as the parish clerk at St. James's Church in Poole (1729-1768) and was organist in both Wareham and Poole. Known in his time as the "coun…

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