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Text:My God, My Father, While I Stray
Author:Charlotte Elliott
Tune:HANFORD
Composer:Arthur S. Sullivan

261. My God, My Father, While I Stray

1 My God, my Father, while I stray
Far from my home, on life's rough way,
O teach me from my heart to say,
"Thy will be done!"

2 Though dark my path, and sad my lot,
Let me be still and murmur not,
Or breathe the prayer divinely taught
"Thy will be done!"

3 Renew my will from day to day;
Blend it with Thine, and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
"Thy will be done!"

4 Let but my fainting heart be blest
With Thy good Spirit for its Guest,
My God, to Thee I leave the rest;
"Thy will be done!"

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: My God, my Father, while I stray
Title: My God, My Father, While I Stray
Author: Charlotte Elliott (1834)
Meter: 8. 8. 8. 4.
Publication Date: 1957
Scripture: ;
Tune Information
Name: HANFORD
Composer: Arthur S. Sullivan (1874)
Meter: 8. 8. 8. 4.
Key: D Major



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