God Of The Seasons, Come Again

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God of the seasons, come again

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Tune: BEATITUDO
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 God of the seasons, come again
To bless the circling year!
Give us clear shining after rain,
And bid the spring appear!

2 Breathe on this fallen world of ours,
And wake it into life;
And send us genial suns and showers,
For winter’s stormy strife.

3 ’Tis Thine to rear the tender crop,
The wandering flocks to feed;
And plenteous in Thy footsteps drop
Supplies for every need.

4 The year is with Thy goodness crowned,
The valleys laugh and sing,
The little hills rejoice around,
And earth adores her king.

5 God of the year, while thus the rest
Thy genial influence share,
Shine into every wintry breast,
And make a spring-tide there.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16451

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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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First Line:	God of the seasons, come again
Title:	God Of The Seasons, Come Again
Author:	Henry Francis Lyte
Source:	Spirit of the Psalms, 4th ed. (London: Rivington, Hatchard,Seeley, & Nisbet, 1836)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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BEATITUDO

Composed by John B. Dykes (PHH 147), BEATITUDO was published in the revised edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1875), where it was set to Isaac Watts' "How Bright Those Glorious Spirits Shine." Originally a word coined by Cicero, BEATITUDO means "the condition of blessedness." Like many of Dykes's…

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