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12724 | The Cyber Hymnal#12725 | 12726 |
Text: | The Lord Is My Shepherd |
Author: | Hannah J. Lewis, 1816-1885 |
Tune: | CROFTON |
Composer: | Edward Lord Crofton |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 I shall not want. Upon Thy arm relying,
Hunger, and thirst, and pain will flee away,
And that dark valley where the dead are lying,
Smile like a garden where no flowers decay.
2 The wintry wind in vain shall wave its pinion
O’er my defenseless head if Thou art nigh!
Ocean’s rough billows, ’neath Thy strong dominion,
Still as a child in cradle-sleep shall lie.
3 Soft clouds will temper rays too fiercely burning,
If Thou my weary feet will guide, sustain;
And through the toil, and tears, and restless yearning,
Thy mighty love will soothe the sharpest pain.
4 I hear Thee in the bird that greets the morning;
I see Thee in the meadow’s fragrant bloom;
In gorgeous clouds the sunset hours adorning—
Nor less within the portals of the tomb.
5 Through flickering leaves the moonbeams gently falling,
The zephyr dying o’er a waveless sea,
The night-bird to his brother softly calling,
All lead my spirit upward unto Thee!
6 And when from life, and light, and beauty, flinging
Its rainbow hues around where’er I tread,
I must go forth, no deathless want upspringing
Shall fetter wings too long in vain outspread.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I shall not want. Upon Thy arm relying |
Title: | The Lord Is My Shepherd |
Author: | Hannah J. Lewis, 1816-1885 |
Meter: | 11.10.11.10 |
Language: | English |
Source: | The Poetical Works of Mrs. H. J. Lewis (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1885) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CROFTON |
Composer: | Edward Lord Crofton (1893) |
Meter: | 11.10.11.10 |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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