The Cyber Hymnal ‎#10722

10722. To Praise Our Shepherd's Care

1 To praise our Shepherd’s care,
His wisdom, love, and might,
Your loudest, loftiest songs prepare,
And bid the world unite.

2 Supremely good and great,
He tends His blood-bought fold;
He stoops, though throned in highest state,
The feeblest to uphold.

3 He hears their softest plaint;
He sees them when they roam;
And if His meanest lamb should faint,
His bosom bears it home.

4 Kind Shepherd of the sheep!
A weary flock are we;
And snares and foes are nigh; but keep
The lambs who look to Thee.

5 And if through death’s dark vale
Our feet should early tread,
Oh, may we reach Thy fold, and hail
The love which us hath led!

Text Information

• First Line: To praise our Shepherd’s care
• Title: To Praise Our Shepherd's Care
• Author: William H. Havergal (1840)
• Meter: SM
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Written after witnessing the death of Elizabeth Edwards, aged 12, of St. Nicholas, Worcester, and printed as a leaflet. Pub. in W. C. Wilson’s Bk. of General Psalmody, 1840; the Worcester Ps. & Hys., 1849; Life Echoes &c., 1883. The author also pub. a Memoir of the child. Julian, p. 498

Tune Information

• Name: OLMUTZ
• Arranger: Lowell Mason (1824)
• Meter: SM
• Key: A Major
• Source: Gregorian chant
• Copyright: Public Domain