10114 | The Cyber Hymnal#10115 | 10116 |
Text: | God Of My Life, Thy Constant Care |
Alterer: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Tune: | TRURO |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 God of my life, Thy constant care,
With blessings crowns each opening year;
This guilty life Thou dost prolong,
And wake anew mine annual song.
2 How many precious souls are fled
To the vast regions of the dead,
Since from this day the changing sun
Through his last yearly period run.
3 We yet survive; but who can say,
Or through the year, or month or day,
I will retain this vital breath;
Thus far at least in league with death.
4 That breath is Thine, eternal God,
’This Thine to fix my soul’s abode;
It holds its life from Thee alone,
On earth, or in the world unknown.
5 To Thee our spirits we resign,
Make them and own them still as Thine;
So shall they smile, secure from fear,
Though death should blast the rising year.
6 Thy children eager to be gone,
Bid time’s impetuous tide roll on,
And land them on that blooming shore,
Where years and death are known no more.
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First Line: | God of my life, Thy constant care |
Title: | God Of My Life, Thy Constant Care |
Alterer: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Published posthumously in Hymns, founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures,/cite> by Job Orton (Shropshire, England: J. Eddowes & J. Cotton, 1755) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Name: | TRURO |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | C Major |
Source: | Psalmodia Evangelica by Thomas Williams, 1789 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | Midi |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |