Dear Lord, each selfish thought we think

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Dear Lord, each selfish thought we think

Author: Lucy Larcom
Tune: ST. AGNES (Dykes)
Published in 5 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Lord Be Glorified

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1 Dear Lord, each selfish thought we think
Puts us afar from thee;
Into our own dark depths we sink,
Where heaven can never be.

2 Teach us to know thee as thou art;
To give as thou hast given!
O show us how the loving heart
May make this world a heaven!

Source: Worship and Song. (Rev. ed.) #153

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Author: Lucy Larcom

Larcom, Lucy, was born at Beverley Farm, Massachusetts, in 1826. Her Poems were published in 1864. Her hymn, "When for me the silent oar" [Death Anticipated), was published in 1868. She died in 1893. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Dear Lord, each selfish thought we think
Author:	Lucy Larcom
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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ST. AGNES (Dykes)

John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…

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