Unanswered Yet

Unanswered yet? The prayer your lips have pleaded

Author: F. G. Burroughs
Tune: [Unanswered yet? the prayer your lips are pleading] (Tillman)
Published in 78 hymnals

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1. Unanswered yet? The prayer your lips have pleaded
In agony of heart these many years?
Does faith begin to fail, is hope departing,
And think you all in vain those falling tears?
Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer;
You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere.

2. Unanswered yet? Though when you first presented
This one petition at the Father’s throne,
It seemed you could not wait the time of asking,
So urgent was your heart to make it known.
Though years have passed since then, do not despair;
The Lord will answer you, sometime, somewhere.

3. Unanswered yet? But you are not unheeded;
The promises of God forever stand;
To Him our days and years alike are equal;
“Have faith in God”; it is your Lord’s command.
Hold on to Jacob’s angel and your prayer
Shall bring a blessing down sometime, somewhere.

4. Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say ungranted;
Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done;
The work began when first your prayer was uttered,
And God will finish what He has begun.
If you will keep the incense burning there,
His glory you shall see, sometime, somewhere.

5. Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered;
Her feet were firmly planted on the Rock;
Amid the wildest storm prayer stands undaunted,
Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.
She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer,
And cries, “It shall be done,” sometime, somewhere.

Source: 50 Uncommon Songs: for partakers of the common salvation #41

Author: F. G. Burroughs

F. G. Burroughs was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of Ophelia G. Adams and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921 Go to person page >

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First Line: Unanswered yet? The prayer your lips have pleaded
Title: Unanswered Yet
Author: F. G. Burroughs
Meter: 11.10.11.10.10.10.10
Language: English
Publication Date: 1894
Copyright: Public Domain

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50 Uncommon Songs #41

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Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services #134

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Christian Joy #d117

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Coronation Hymns #184

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Favorite Solos #114

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Garden of Spices #76

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Garden of Spices #76

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Glowing Songs #12

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Greatest Hymns for use in the Churches #d320

Harvest of Light #d233

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His Praise #204

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Hymns of Glory No. 2 #195

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Hymns of Praise Numbers One and Two Combined #98

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Hymns of Praise #98

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Hymns of Victory #105

Hymns, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints #286

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Make Christ King #122

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Make His Praise Glorious #179

Ministry of Song #d136

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Missionary Hymns and Responsive Scripture Readings #16

New Spiritual Songs #117

Our Cumberland Presbyterian Hymnal #d359

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 3 #82

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Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #82

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Praise #7

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Praise Him #d276

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Praises #106

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Redemption Songs #776

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Sing His Praise #108

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Songs for the King's Business #102

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Spiritual Songs No. 2 #37

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The Evangel #d195

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The Gospel Chorus #5

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The Seed Sower #118

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The Songs of Zion #234

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The World Evangel #192

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World-Wide Revival Hymns #113

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