From Thee, O LORD

From Thee, O LORD, I came at first

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 From Thee, O LORD, I came at first,
The creature of Thy hand;
Thy providence my life has nursed,
And by Thy grace I stand.

2 Each member of my wondrous frame,
Displays Thy skill and power;
And countless benefits proclaim,
Thy love from hour to hour.

3 Down in Thine arms at night I lie;
Thou watchest while I sleep.
I wake at morn; Thou still are nigh,
My soul to tend and keep.

4 Search me, O LORD; my spirit prove;
From sin O set me free:
Ad make my heart return the love,
It daily shares from Thee.

Source: Psalms of Grace #139a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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