In the morning hear my voice

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In the morning hear my voice

Author: James Montgomery
Tune: PLEYEL'S HYMN
Published in 12 hymnals

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In the morning hear my voice,
Let me in thy light rejoice;
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God, my Sun! my strength renew,
Send thy blessing down like dew.

Through the duties of the day,
Grant me, grace to watch and pray;
Live as always seeing Thee,
Knowing, "Thou, God! seest me."

When the evening skies display
Richer pomp than noon's array,
Be the shades of death to me
Bright with immortality.

When the round of care is run,
And the stars succeed the sun,
Songs of praise with prayer unite,
Crown the day, and hail the night.

Thus with thee, my God! my Friend!
Time begin, continue, end,
While life's joys and sorrows pass
Like the changes of the grass.

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Author: James Montgomery

James Montgomery (b. Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1771; d. Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 1854), the son of Moravian parents who died on a West Indies mission field while he was in boarding school, Montgomery inherited a strong religious bent, a passion for missions, and an independent mind. He was editor of the Sheffield Iris (1796-1827), a newspaper that sometimes espoused radical causes. Montgomery was imprisoned briefly when he printed a song that celebrated the fall of the Bastille and again when he described a riot in Sheffield that reflected unfavorably on a military commander. He also protested against slavery, the lot of boy chimney sweeps, and lotteries. Associated with Christians of various persuasions, Montgomery supported missio… Go to person page >

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First Line:	In the morning hear my voice
Author:	James Montgomery
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

In the morning hear my voice. J. Montgomery. [Daily Prayer.] Montgomery's original manuscript of this hymn is dated "Jan. 7, 1834," and on it are given the names of fifteen persons to whom copies were sent. Montgomery published the hymn in his Original Hymns, 1853, No. 80, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, as "A Prayer for every day and all day long." Its use is mainly confined to America.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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