My Father’s Love I Sing

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My Father’s love I sing

Author: R. Walmsley
Tune: [My Father's love I sing]
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1 My Father’s love I sing;
My song on swiftest wing
Shall upward mount to reach his ear;
I bear the grateful strain,
O’er mountain hill and plain,
To tell his mercies far and near,
His mercies far and near.

2 My Father’s love I sing;
There is no earthly thing
So pure or sweet or strong can be;
O hear his loving call,
O taste his goodness all,
Then magnify his love with me,
His wondrous love with me.

3 Our Father’s love we sing;
And hearts and voices bring
Each his own part the song to swell;
Let the full organ peal,
And all its pow’r reveal,
To aid his love our tongues to tell,
His love our tongues to tell.

4 Our Father’s love we’ll sing;
Till all the earth shall ring,
The chorus grand shall roll along;
No tongue shall silent lie,
On earth or in the sky—
His love the universal song,
The universal song.

Source: The Service of Praise #29

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Author: R. Walmsley

Walmsley, Robert, was b. at Manchester March 18, 1831, went to Sale in 1870, where he was till 1904 in business as a jeweller, and d. at Sale Oct. 30, 1905. He was a Congregationalist, and was for 28 years connected with the work of the Manchester Sunday School Union, many of his hymns being written for the annual Whitweek Festival. He published 44 of them, with a preface dated Dec. 1900, as Sacred Songs for Children of all Ages. They are simple, musical, full of a deep love of God, of the works of God in nature, and of little children, and deserve to be more extensively used. The best-known of the longer hymns are:— 1. O praise our God to-day; Ye people haste to pay. [Praise to God.] Dated 1899, and included in his Sacred Songs, &… Go to person page >

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First Line:	My Father’s love I sing
Title:	My Father’s Love I Sing
Author:	R. Walmsley
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1900
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1930.