My Heart Its God Would Sing

My heart its God would sing

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 My heart its God would sing,
But ah, my powers are small.
Spirit of grace, Your helping bring,
And raise and claim them all.

2 At morn, at noon, at night,
In secret and abroad,
O make it still my chief delight,
To thank and praise my God!

3 Beyond the spreading sky,
Your love and truth extend.
Set up Your glory, LORD, on high,
And reign the sinner's Friend.

4 Let earth her Monarch know;
Set all Your people free:
And while Thou healest others' woe,
Be gracious, LORD, to me.

Source: Psalms of Grace #108c

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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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