Smile on Thy Servant

Smile on Thy servant, bounteous LORD!

Author: Richard Mant (1824)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Smile on Thy servant, bounteous LORD!
Grant me to live, and keep Thy Word:
Grand me to view, with eyes unsealed,
The wonders by Thy law revealed:

2 Nor hide Thy will, while far from home
A stranger here on earth I roam;
While pines my soul with restless love
Thy righteous judgments, LORD, to prove.

3 Who proudly from Thy precepts stray,
Marks of Thy wrath, accursed are they.
But, O, for me, who keep Thy will,
Do Thou the storm of malice still!

4 Tho' shame and scorn beset me round,
And princes seek my name to wound.
Thy laws Thy servant's thoughts employ,
My counsellors, my dearest joy!

Source: Psalms of Grace #119:17-24a

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Author: Richard Mant

Mant, Richard D.D., son of the Rev. Richard Mant, Master of the Grammar School, Southampton, was born at Southampton, Feb. 12, 1776. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A., 1799). At Oxford he won the Chancellor's prize for an English essay: was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. On taking Holy Orders he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. 1816, and East Horsley, 1818, Bishop of Killaloe, 1820, of Down and Connor, 1823, and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811. He died Nov. 2, 1848. His prose works were numerou… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Smile on Thy servant, bounteous LORD!
Title:	Smile on Thy Servant
Author:	Richard Mant (1824)
Meter:	8.8.8.8 LM
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain