Thy Will Be Done

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1 How sweet to be allow'd to pray
To God, the Holy One,
With filial love and trust to say,
O God, thy will be done.

2 We in these sacred words can find,
A cure for every ill;
They calm and soothe the troubled mind,
And bid all care be still.

3 Oh! may that will that gave me birth,
And an immortal soul,
In joy or grief, in life or death,
My every wish control.

4 Oh! could my heart thus ever pray,
Thus imitate thy Son!
Teach me, O God, in truth to say,
"Thy will, not mine, be done."

Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #197b

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Author: Eliza Lee Follen

Follen, Eliza Lee, née Cabot, a well-known Unitarian writer, daughter of Samuel Cabot, born at Boston, August 15, 1787, and married, in 1828, to Professor Charles Follen, who perished on board the "Lexington," which was burnt on Long Island Sound, Jan. 13,1840. Mrs. Follen died at Brookline, Mass., 1860. She was a voluminous writer. Her Poems were first published at Boston (Crosby & Co.), 1839, and whilst she was in England she issued another volume for children's use, entitled The Lark and the Linnet, in 1854. Both volumes also contain some translations from the German, and versions of a few Psalms. Her best known hymns are:— 1. How sweet to be allowed to pray. Resignation. Appeared in the Christian Disciple, Sept., 1818,… Go to person page >

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First Line: How sweet to be allowed to pray
Title: Thy Will Be Done
Author: Eliza Lee Follen
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

BELMONT (Gardiner)

This tune has been mis-attributed to various other composers, but is clearly the work of the above-named composer.

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NAOMI (Nägeli)

NAOMI was a melody that Lowell Mason (PHH 96) brought to the United States from Europe and arranged as a hymn tune; the arrangement was first published in the periodical Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1836). Some scholars have attributed the original melody to Johann G. Nageli (PHH 315), but there…

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ORTONVILLE


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The Cyber Hymnal #11004
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