The Feast of Love

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Child of sorrow, child of care, would thou learn thy griefs to bear

Author: Thomas Hastings
Tune: [Child of sorrow, child of care]
Published in 20 hymnals

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1 Child of sorrow, child of care,
Wouldst thou learn thy griefs to bear,
And escape from ev'ry snare,
Trust in God alone!
Human strength is weak and vain,
Let not sin its pow'r regain;
Human ask, and help obtain
From thy Father's throne.

2 Know'st thou not this vale of tears,
Gloomy doubts, distracting fears?
Painful months and sorrowing years?
To the Saviour fly!
He that drank the bitter cup,
Bids thee in his mercy hope;
Let thy prayer be lifted up,
To the throne on high.

Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #59

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Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Child of sorrow, child of care, would thou learn thy griefs to bear
Title:	The Feast of Love
Author:	Thomas Hastings
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	We'll be there, we'll be there
Copyright:	Public Domain