Voices United ‎#405

405. New Every Morning

1 New every morning is the love
our wakening and uprising prove;
through sleep and darkness safely brought,
restored to life, and power, and thought.

2 New mercies, each returning day,
hover around us while we pray;
new perils past, new sins forgiven,
new thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

3 If on our daily course our mind
be set to hallow all we find,
new treasures still of countless price
God will provide for sacrifice.

4 The trivial round, the common task,
will furnish all we ought to ask,
room to deny ourselves, a road
to bring us daily nearer God.

5 Only, O God, in your dear love,
fit us for perfect rest above;
and help us, this and every day,
to live more nearly as we pray.

Text Information

• First Line: New every morning is the love
• Title: New Every Morning
• Author: John Keble (1822)
• Meter: 8 8 8 8
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1996
• Topic: The Church at Worship: Opening and Morning Hymns; liturgical: Opening Hymns; Devotion; Discipleship and Service; God: Care; God: Faithfulness; God: Law; God: Love; God: Mercy; Morning; Opening Hymns; Service Music: Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Proper 9: Year A; Lent 2: Year B; Proper 6: Year B; Proper 19: Year B; Easter 5: Year C; Proper 22: Year C

Tune Information

• Name: MELCOMBE
• Composer: Samuel Webbe (1782)
• Meter: 8 8 8 8
• Key: E♭ Major